Carl Ferdinand Appun
Carl Ferdinand Appun (24 May 1820,
Bunzlau- July 1872,
Guyana) was a German
naturalist.
On the recommendation of
Alexander von Humboldt Appun was employed by
Frederick William IV of Prussia as a
botanist in
Venezuela where excepting a one-year break in Germany, he spent ten years exploring the flora. After that he went to British Guayana, where he researched as a botanist on behalf the
British government. He also visited parts of
Brazil -the Rio Branco and Rio Negro on the Amazon to Tabatinga. During a visit in Germany (1868–1871) he published a set of essays in different magazines . His best known work'' Unter den Tropen'' (''Under the Tropics'') was at that time extremely popular. In 1871 he undertook a second exploration of Guyana, where he had an accident which led to his death. His last writings were essays about
Indigenous peoples in Venezuela.
Appun described many new plant species and is also known as an
entomologist.
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