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Arnold Schultze
1875–1948
An officer, explorer, and scientist, he wrote from direct experience in Africa and South America, blending travel, geography, and natural history. His work offers a window into the expedition culture and colonial-era observation of the early 20th century.
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The Sultanate of Bornu
by Arnold Schultze
About the author
Born in Cologne on March 24, 1875, Arnold Schultze was a German officer, geographer, and entomologist who later became known as Arnold Schultze-Rhonhof. He is especially remembered for his fieldwork and collecting trips, with butterfly collections from Africa and later from places including Colombia, the Congo region, Cameroon, Chad, and Ecuador ending up in major natural history museums.
Alongside his scientific work, he published travel and ethnographic writing drawn from his expeditions. That makes his books interesting not only for their descriptions of landscape and wildlife, but also for the way they reflect the outlook of a European explorer writing in the colonial period.
Schultze died on August 22, 1948, on Madeira. Today, he is a figure of interest both to readers of historical travel writing and to historians of geography, entomology, and collecting.