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18th-century German explorers

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Alexander von Humboldt

Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)

German naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist, and revolutionary (1754-1794)

Georg Wilhelm Steller

Explorer and zoologist famous for discovering Steller's Sea Lion

Carsten Niebuhr

German mathematician, botanist, cartographer and explorer in Danish service (1733–1815)

Gerhard Friedrich Müller

German historian and ethnologist

Ulrich Jasper Seetzen

German physician, naturalist, explorer and orientalist (1767-1811)

Wilhelm Gottlob Tilesius von Tilenau

German zoologist (1769-1857)

astronomer (1675-1726) in South Africa

Friedrich Hornemann

German explorer

Karl Ludwig von Pöllnitz

German soldier, adventurer and writer (1692-1775)

Daniel Gottlieb Messerschmidt

German scientist (1685-1735)

Karl Friedrich Behrens

German explorer and writer

Heinrich Menu von Minutoli

German general (1772-1846)

Johann August Carl Sievers

German botanist (1762-1795)