Franz Engel (1834 in

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– 1920 in

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) was a German explorer and naturalist. He traveled extensively in

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in the years 1857–63 and published the results of his explorations in several volumes, including ''Studien unter den Tropen Amerikas'' (“Studies among the American tropics,” 2d ed., 1879), ‘Aus dem Pflanzerstaate Zulia’ (“From the plantation state of

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,” 1881). From 1872 to 1896 he published the ''Landwirthschaftliche Jahrbücher'' (“Agricultural yearbooks”).

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* 1834 births 1920 deaths 19th-century German botanists German explorers Explorers of South America {{Botanist-stub