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Baron de Langsdorff
An adventurous naturalist and explorer, he wrote vivid accounts of scientific travel at a time when much of the world was still little known to European readers. His work brings together medicine, diplomacy, and firsthand observation from journeys across the globe and in Brazil.
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Op de olifantenjacht in Oeganda De Aarde en haar Volken, 1910
by Baron de Langsdorff
About the author
Born in 1774, Baron de Langsdorff — better known as Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff — was a German naturalist, physician, and explorer who also served as a Russian diplomat. He studied medicine at the University of Göttingen and went on to build a career that mixed science, travel, and public service.
He joined the first Russian circumnavigation of the globe from 1803 to 1806, an experience that helped shape his travel writing and scientific reputation. Later, while serving as Russia's consul general in Rio de Janeiro, he organized the ambitious Langsdorff Expedition into the Brazilian interior, a major journey that gathered observations on geography, plants, animals, and local peoples.
His books and journals are remembered for their sense of discovery and for the way they capture exploration in the early nineteenth century. For audiobook listeners, his writing offers both historical curiosity and the direct, observant voice of someone who truly traveled where he wrote.