Algot Lange
Algot Lange (10 May 1884 -?) was a Swedish explorer and writer of the Amazon.[1]
Biography
He was born on 10 May 1884 in Stockholm in Hovförsamlingen. His original name was Åke Mortimer Lange, but later he took his father's name. Parents were the opera singer Algot Lange and the pianist and author Ina Lange née Forstén.[2]
He collected 2,000 pottery fragments from Pacoval Island in Lake Arary on Marajo Island, which were acquired by the American Museum of Natural History in 1915.[3]
Lange became a US citizen in 1915 and in 1941 was living in New York City.[4]
Publications
- In the Amazon jungle: adventures in remote parts of the upper Amazon river (1912) with J. Odell Hauser and Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh
- The lower Amazon: a narrative of explorations in the little known regions (1914):[5] Supplements In the Amazon jungle "with a most readable account of the new explorations and discoveries in this enormously rich but little known country. Profusely illustrated."[6]
References
- ^ "Algot Lange, Brazilian Explorer, Can Find No One to Buy His Prehistoric Pottery. Valuable Collection, but No Room for It, Say Natural History Museum Heads". The New York Times. April 7, 1915. Retrieved 2009-12-05.
If Algot Lange, the explorer, does not alter his vehemently expressed intention, and if the Harbor Police do not interfere, 5,000 pieces and fragments of prehistoric pottery dug from the mud of a sunken island at the mouth of the Amazon River will find a second watery resting place at the bottom of the East River.
- ^ World War I draft registration
- ^ "Museum Notes". American Museum Journal. American Museum of Natural History: 432. 1915.
- ^ Fonseca, Raphael (2015). "Katú Kama-rãh: friendship, image and text according to Algot Lange". www.dezenovevinte.net. Retrieved 2021-07-15.
- ^ Lange, Algot (1914). The lower Amazon: a narrative of explorations in the little known regions. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Retrieved July 24, 2012.
- ^ "Books of the week". The Independent. Nov 30, 1914. Retrieved July 24, 2012.
External links
- Algot Lange at the New York Public Library
- Works by Algot Lange at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Algot Lange at the Internet Archive
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