Barth

Barth, Henirich, born at Hamburg in 1821, and educated at the University of Berlin, started in 1845, after careful preparation, on a journey of exploration in North Africa, visiting Tunis, Tripoli, Barca, and the valley of the Nile. In 1847 he travelled through Egypt, Palestine, Asia Minor, and Greece, and two years later he published his book on the coasts of the Mediterranean. Bunsen procured him in 1849 the direction in connection with Overweg of an English expedition into Central Africa. After an absence of more than five years he gave to the world the results of his journey in a work entitled Travels and Discoveries in Central Africa. He again returned to the shores of the Mediterranean in 1858 and 1862, was appointed Professor of Geography in the University of Berlin in 1863, and died in 1865.