> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 680](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355767) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/6828-1) LSID 6828-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60549) QID Q60549 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Nachtigal, Gustav Hermann (1834-1885), German collector and explorer of Africa; military physician; from 1861 in Algeria, from 1863 in Tunisia; travelling in northern Africa 1868-1875; from 1882-1884 German consul at Tunis; first colonizer of Togo and Cameroon (1884-1885); died at sea when returning to Germany. **Abbreviated name**: *Nachtigal* \[standard form in IPNI: *Nacht.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection B|B]] (main part no longer extant). #### Bibliography and biography ADB 23: 193-199 (F. Ratzel); Barnhart 2: 534; BM 3: 1388; CSP 8: 478, 10: 896, 17: 441; IH 2: (in press); Kew 4: 101; Rehder 5: 605; Tucker 1: 510; Urban-Berl. p. 163, 194, 377. - Anon., Brockhaus' Conversations-Lexikon 12: 40-41. 1885; Nat. Nov. 7: 128. 1885 (d.). - Ascherson, P., *in* E. Durand & C. Baratte, Fl. Libyc. prodr. xxiii. 1910. - Embacher, F., Lexik. Reis. 215. 1882. - Giglioli, E., Archivio Antropol. Etnol. 15: 259-262. 1885 (obit.). - Güsfeldt, P., Leopoldina 22: 97-101, 120-123. 1886 (obit., b. 23 Feb 1834, d. 20 Apr 1885), in part taken from Güssfeldt et al., Trauerfeier für Gustav Nachtigal, *in* Verh. Ges. Erdk. Berlin 12: 347-365. 1885. - Letouzey, R., Fl. Cameroun 7: 9-10. 1968. - Neumayer, G., Mitt. geogr. Ges. Hamburg 1885/86(3): 251-257. 1887 (éloge). - Poggendorff, J. C., Biogr.-Lit. Handw.-Buch 3: 953. 1898. - Reiss, Verh. berlin. Ges. Erdk. 12: 347-365. 1885 (obit.). - Wichmann, H., Petermanns Mitt. aus Justus Perthes, Geogr. Anstalt 31: 224-225, 429. 1885. - Wickens, G. E., Veröff. Übersee-Mus. Bremen, C. 1: 212-216. 1977. - Wolkenhauer, W., Geogr. Jahrb. 12: 380-381. 1888. #### Note Nachtigal's major travelogue, *Sahara und Sudan*, Ergebnisse sechsjähriger Reisen in Afrika (3 vols., Berlin 1879-1889), contains in vol. 3(edited by E. Groddeck) a botanical chapter by P. Ascherson (p. 537-548). Nachtigal's collections were enumerated by Ascherson in Rohlfs, Kufra, 1881, Abth. 2(7).