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Biographical data

 

Pfeil (und Klein Ellguth), Joachim Friedrich Graf von

 

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)

 

Born: 1857, Neurode, Silesia, Germany. Died: before 1938.

 

career:

Educated at Jena; from 1873-83 farmer in Natal and Orange Free State, S. Africa; exploring the Limpopo region (1882) and Ulanga (1885-86); from 1887-89 Director of the Bismarck Archipelago;1 study tour to the Dutch East Indies, 1889; visit to German SW. Africa in 1892; visits to Morocco in 1897, 1899 and 1901; to the U.S.A. and Mexico in 1904, and to German and English E. Africa in 1905; teacher at the French gymnasium at Berlin, 1917-20.

 

Collecting localities:

Former Kaiser- Wilhelmsland, NE. New Guinea. Arriving at Finschhafen (Dec. 22, 1887); with C. Hunstein setting out (Dec. 28) to Festungs Cape, H. returning on account of illness; excursion in the valley of the Bu Porum and returning afoot to Finschhafen.2-Bismarck Archipelago. Stationed in Kerawara (1888-89), from where making tours to Neu Mecklenburg (= New Ireland) (May 22-, 1888),3 Neu Hannover (= New Hanover); he evidently climbed the Wuna Koker or Varzinberg in New Britain4 and Mutter Volcano.5

 

collections:

He is said to be the collector of plants in the Bismarck Archipelago, described by F. von Mueller.

Africa plants in Herb. Berl. [B] (pres. 1892-93).

 

literature:

(1) Author of ‘Land and Volk im Bismarck-Archipel’ (Verb. Ges. Erdk. Berl. 17, 1890, p. 144-156); ‘Studien and Beobachtungen aus der Südsee’ (Braunschweig 1899).

(2) J. Graf Pfeil: ‘Bericht über eine Reise in Deutsch Neuguinea’ (Peterm. Mitt. 36, 1890, p. 219-227).

(3) cf. Nachr. Kais. Wilh. Land 4, 1888, p. 153-154 and Peterm. Mitt. 40, 1894, p. 73-82, pl. 7 (map).

Wichmann, Enid. Gesch. N.G., in Nova Guinea 22, p. 476 gives several data, derived from a map made by Pfeil.

(4) cf. ‘Bilder aus dem Schutzgebiet i.d. Südsee’ (Westerm. illustr. deutsche Mon. Hefte Braunschweig 72, 1892, p. 539-540).

(5) cf. Pfeil, Studien and Beobachtungen etc., l.c. p. 170.

 

biographical data:

cf. Nachr. Kais. Wilh. Land 4, 1888, p. 17, 57 and 145; J.C. Poggendorf, Biogr.-liter. Handwörterbuch 4, 1903, and l.c. 63, 1938.