Carl Ritter
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Carl Ritter was a German geographer. Along with Alexander von Humboldt, he is considered one of the founders of modern geography, as they established it as an independent scientific discipline. From 1
Lithograph by Rudolf Hoffmann (1857)
Heinrich Barth
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Johann Heinrich Barth was a German explorer of Africa and scholar.
Carl Ritter
…constant contacts with British scholars and scientific circles like the Royal Geographical Society. He was one of the academic teachers of the explorer Heinrich Barth, who traveled in Northern and Western Africa on behalf of the British government to negotiate treaties that were to stop the Trans-Saharan slave trade…
Heinrich Barth
Route of Barth's journey through Africa between 1850 and 1855
Heinrich Barth approaching Timbuktu on 7 September 1853 as depicted by Martin Bernatz.
Memorial tablet at the Barth-House in Agadez