Heinrich Röntgen

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Heinrich Röntgen
Born	1787
Died	1813

Heinrich Röntgen (1787 – 1813), was one of four students recommended as explorers to Joseph Banks' African Association by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, the others being Friedrich Hornemann, Ulrich Seetzen, and Johann Ludwig Burckhardt. All died in Africa.^[1]

Following the disappearance of British diplomat Benjamin Bathurst near Berlin in 1809, Röntgen accompanied Bathurst's wife Phillida when she travelled to Germany to search for her husband.^[2]

Notes

↑ Liebersohn, Harry (2006). The Travelers' World: Europe to the Pacific. Harvard University Press. p. 129. ISBN 0-674-02185-1.
↑ "A Mysterious Crime". Littell's Living Age (Boston: Littell, Son, and Company) XIX: pp. 231–234. 1862. Retrieved 2008-02-03.

Persondata
Name	Rontgen, Heinrich
Alternative names
Short description	German explorer
Date of birth	1787
Place of birth
Date of death	1813
Place of death

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