Franz Engel (1834 in

Röbel Röbel () is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is situated on the western shore of Lake Müritz, 25 km north of Wittstock, and 27 km southwest of Waren. It is pa ...

– 1920 in Neubrandenburg) was a German explorer and naturalist. He traveled extensively in South America 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 Zulia,” 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