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Karl Mauch

1837 - 1875

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Karl Gottlieb Mauch (7 May 1837 – 4 April 1875) was a German explorer and geographer of Africa. He reported on the archaeological ruins of Great Zimbabwe in 1871 during his search for the biblical land of Ophir. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Mauch is the 419th most popular explorer (up from 441st in 2019), the 4,838th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,991st in 2019) and the 25th most popular German Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Karl Mauch ranks 419 out of 498. Before him are Ernest Henry Wilson, Henry Kellett, Clements Markham, Luke Foxe, Francis Crozier, and Christopher Middleton. After him are Alonso Álvarez de Pineda, Isaac Israel Hayes, Gennady Nevelskoy, Sámuel Teleki, Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, and Androsthenes of Thasos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, Karl Mauch ranks 99. Before him are Princess Leopoldine of Baden, Petre P. Carp, Juan Lindolfo Cuestas, William Dean Howells, Leo Königsberger, and Pedro Varela. After him are Princess Bathildis of Anhalt-Dessau, Carl Koldewey, Theodor Rosetti, Altaf Hussain Hali, Nikolai Bugaev, and Władysław Żeleński. Among people deceased in 1875, Karl Mauch ranks 76. Before him are Joseph Othmar Rauscher, George Pickett, José María Ventura Casas, Heinrich Ewald, Henry Kellett, and Zsigmond Kemény. After him are John Gardner Wilkinson, Zecharias Frankel, Juan Crisóstomo Torrico, Ivan Kuratov, Dragojla Jarnević, and Atis Kronvalds.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Mauch ranks 4,841 out of 7,253. Before him are Manfred Kaiser (1929), Martin Noth (1902), Alice Salomon (1872), Rosemary Murphy (1925), Joseph Weydemeyer (1818), and Bärbel Wöckel (1955). After him are Paul Warburg (1868), Ilona Slupianek (1956), Henning von Holtzendorff (1853), Gerhard Lamprecht (1897), Lya Lys (1908), and Wilhelm Geiger (1856).

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Among EXPLORERS In Germany

Among explorers born in Germany, Karl Mauch ranks 25. Before him are Robert Hermann Schomburgk (1804), Carl Peters (1856), Albert von Le Coq (1860), Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs (1831), Theodor von Heuglin (1824), and Johannes Rebmann (1820). After him are Johann Ludwig Krapf (1810), Carl Koldewey (1837), and Jan Carstenszoon (null).

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