Gustav Nachtigal (German: [ˈɡʊstaf ˈnaxtɪɡal]; born 23 February 1834 – 20 April 1885) was a German military surgeon and explorer of Central and West Africa...

Nachtigal is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Gustav Nachtigal (1834–1885), German explorer Jacob M. Nachtigal (1874–1947), American...

medical doctor, imperial consul and commissioner for West Africa Gustav Nachtigal was the driving force toward the establishment of the West African...

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...

source of resistance to French colonization. Europeans under the German Gustav Nachtigal first explored the area in 1873. It would eventually lose its independence...

scientists. The German Gustav Nachtigal was the first European to explore, albeit with great difficulty, the Tibesti in 1869. While Nachtigal provided an accurate...

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...

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...

Cameroon) * Reichskommissare (Commissioners) 14 July 1884 – 19 July 1884 Gustav Nachtigal (b. 1834 – d. 1885) 19 July 1884 – 1 April 1885 Maximilian Buchner...

warehouse. It was built on the estuary of the Wouri River. Later, Gustav Nachtigal made a treaty with one of the local kings to annex the region for the...

quarter, honours him Gustav Nachtigal (1834–1885), doctor and explorer in Africa. He is honored with bust at the Gustav Nachtigal Square Bürgermeisterwahlen...

following the visits of Dixon Denham (1823), Heinrich Barth (1852), Gustav Nachtigal (1872), and Matteucci and Massari (1881). When Rabih az-Zubayr's forces...

Berlin. In October, the newly appointed Commissioner for West Africa, Gustav Nachtigal, arrived on the Möwe. In April 1885, the Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft...

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...

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...

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...

in Douala Former residence of the head of constituency Monument of Gustav Nachtigal, Douala Monument of Ngosso Din, Douala Chamber of Commerce, Douala...

glacier after Dr. Gustav Nachtigal (1834–85), German physician and explorer of Africa. List of glaciers in the Antarctic Glaciology "Nachtigal Glacier, Antarctica"...

Richardson and Adolf Overweg), Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs (1865–1867), Gustav Nachtigal (1869–1874) and Parfait-Louis Monteil (1890–1892). Some European countries...

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...

Bourku to Lake Chad. The country long remained unknown to Europeans. Gustav Nachtigal spent some time in it in the year 1871, and gave a valuable account...

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...

Imperial Commissioner for German West Africa (later Togo and Cameroon), Gustav Nachtigal, and his representative, Max Buchner [de] arrived on board the warships...

Duala territories to the Crown. In July 1884, however, German explorer Gustav Nachtigal staged a coup by signing land-cessation treaties with Kings Akwa, Bell...

among them Gustav Nachtigal, confirmed that cannibalism was practised in Darfur and Wadai, especially among some of the Masalit people. Nachtigal also states...

region. The first European who reported Bardaï was the German explorer Gustav Nachtigal. He reached Bardaï on 8 August 1869, but had to flee on 3–4 September...

Vogelsang (1883)* Adolf Lüderitz (1883–1884) Imperial Commissioners Gustav Nachtigal (1884–1885) Heinrich Ernst Göring (1885–1890)* Louis Nels (1890–1891)*...

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...

German South West Africa was established under Reichskommissar governor Gustav Nachtigal. However, the German authorities met with fierce resistance by the...

'Enquête exploitation dans la région de Mao (Kanem),' 1990, 1991, 134 p. Gustav Nachtigal, « Excursion au sud du Kanem », in Sahara et Soudan, Hachette & Cie...