Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p 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 the Indians Category:Indigenous peoples in Venezuela in British Guyana. Appun described many new plant species and is also known as an entomologist.. }
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- Carl_Ferdinand_Appun abstract "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 the Indians Category:Indigenous peoples in Venezuela in British Guyana. Appun described many new plant species and is also known as an entomologist.".