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FLEGEL, EDWARD ROBERT (1855-1886)

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 494 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: FLA-FRA
FLEGEL, EDWARD ROBERT (1855-1886) , German traveller in West Africa, was born on the 1st of October 185.5 at Wilna,
Russia
 . After receiving a commercial education he obtained in 1875 a position in Lagos, West Africa., In 1879 he ascended the Benue river some 125 M. above. the farthest point hitherto` reached. His careful survey of the channel secured him a commission from the German
African
  Society to explore the whole Benue
district
 . In 188o he went up the Niger to Goniba, and then visited Sokoto, where he obtained a safe-conduct from the
sultan
  for his intended expedition to Adamawa. This expedition was undertaken in 1882, and on the rah of August in that year Flegel discovered the source of the Benue at Ngaundere. In 1883-1884 he made another journey 'up the Benue, crossing for the second time the Benue-Congo watershed. After a short absence in Europe Flegel returned' to Africa in
April
  1885 with a commission from the German
African
  Company and the Colonial Society to open up the Niger-Benue
district
  to German
trade
 . This expedition had the support of Prince Bismarck, whp endeavoured, unsuccessfully, to obtain for Germany this region, already secured as a British sphere of influence by the National African Company (the Royal Niger Company). Flegel, despite a severe illness, ascended the Benue to
Yola
 , but was unable to accomplish his mission. He returned to the
coast
  and died at
Brass
 , at the mouth of the Niger, on the 11th of September 1886. (See further GOLDIE, SIR GEORGE.)
Flegel wrote Lose Blatter aus dem Tagebuche ruiner Haussaaf reunde (Hamburg, 1885), and Vom Niger-Benue. Briefe aus Afrika (edited by K. Flegel,
Leipzig
 , 1890).


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