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    Gustav Nachtigal (German: [ˈɡʊstaf ˈnaxtɪɡal]; born 23 February 1834 – 20 April 1885) was a German military surgeon and explorer of Central and West Africa...
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  • Nachtigal is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Gustav Nachtigal (1834–1885), German explorer Jacob M. Nachtigal (1874–1947), American...
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    medical doctor, imperial consul and commissioner for West Africa Gustav Nachtigal was the driving force toward the establishment of the West African...
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  • of Nachtigal, or Mimi-N, is a language of Chad that is attested only in a word list labelled "Mimi" that was collected ca. 1870 by Gustav Nachtigal. Nachtigal's...
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    beginning of the German "Protectorate of Cameroon" was on 17 August 1884. Gustav Nachtigal had arrived in Duala in July and negotiated a treaty with a number...
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    colonial empire had already collapsed by that point. The German consul, Gustav Nachtigal, declared Kamerun a protectorate of Germany on July 12, 1884. A slow...
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    scientists. The German Gustav Nachtigal was the first European to explore, albeit with great difficulty, the Tibesti in 1869. While Nachtigal provided an accurate...
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    in Douala Former residence of the head of constituency Monument of Gustav Nachtigal, Douala Monument of Ngosso Din, Douala Chamber of Commerce, Douala...
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  • efforts to end the colonial rule and then in the civil wars in Chad. Gustav Nachtigal, famous German explorer of Central and West Africa, described the Maba...
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    source of resistance to French colonization. Europeans under the German Gustav Nachtigal first explored the area in 1873. It would eventually lose its independence...
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    quarter, honours him Gustav Nachtigal (1834–1885), doctor and explorer in Africa. He is honored with bust at the Gustav Nachtigal Square Bürgermeisterwahlen...
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  • Cameroon) * Reichskommissare (Commissioners) 14 July 1884 – 19 July 1884 Gustav Nachtigal (b. 1834 – d. 1885) 19 July 1884 – 1 April 1885 Maximilian Buchner...
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  • glacier after Dr. Gustav Nachtigal (1834–85), German physician and explorer of Africa. List of glaciers in the Antarctic Glaciology "Nachtigal Glacier, Antarctica"...
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    German South West Africa In office May 1885 – August 1890 Preceded by Gustav Nachtigal Succeeded by Louis Nels German Resident Minister for Haiti and the...
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    to draw the Fur forces into a series of disasters. German explorer Gustav Nachtigal who was in Darfur in the 19th century, documented in detail the failure...
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  • and a trading post was opened in Akpata. On 23 August 1884 Bey met Gustav Nachtigal, the Imperial Commissioner for German West Africa in Lagos and tried...
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    Berlin. In October, the newly appointed Commissioner for West Africa, Gustav Nachtigal, arrived on the gunboat Möwe. In April 1885, the Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft...
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    known as Togo. Like the country, the town is named after the lake. Gustav Nachtigal signed a treaty with the town's chief, Mlapa III, in 1884, from which...
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  • his own and disappeared a year later. In a visit to Wadai in 1873, Gustav Nachtigal was told that the Sultan of Wadai had ordered Vogel's death. Russian...
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    Vogelsang (1883)* Adolf Lüderitz (1883–1884) Imperial Commissioners Gustav Nachtigal (1884–1885) Heinrich Ernst Göring (1885–1890)* Louis Nels (1890–1891)*...
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