Günter Theodor Tessmann (also given as Günther Teßmann; 2 April 1884 – 15 November 1969) was a German anthropologist, explorer, botanist and zoologist who travelled in Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and Peru. He wrote a two volume work on the Fang people, ''Die Pangwe'' (1913), and another on the people of Peru in ''Die Indianer Nordost-Perus'' (1930). He also collected natural history specimens and cultural artefacts for German museums, particularly in his hometown
Lübeck
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. A number of species were described from his collections including the plant genera '' Tessmannia'', '' Tassmannianthus'' and '' Tessmanniodoxa''.
Tessmann was born in Lübeck to businessman Theodor (1832–1924) and Laura Wöbbe. After school at the Lübeck Katharineum he apprenticed in tropical gardening at
Witzenhausen
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. He travelled to Cameroon to work in a cocoa plantation in 1902. The Lübeck museum supported him to study the local people from 1907 to 1909. He also collected specimens and artefacts for the museum in Lübeck. In 1913 he published a two volume monograph ''Die Pangwe'' that described the
Fang people
The Fang people, also known as Fãn or Pahouin, are a Bantu peoples, Bantu ethnic group found in Equatorial Guinea, northern Gabon, and southern Cameroon.Don i tison. In 1923 he visited Peru and in 1930 he wrote ''Die Indianer Nordost-Perus'' and in the same year received a degree from the University of Rostock. Many species of plants and animals were described from his collections including the butterfly '' Bebearia tessmanni.'' In 1936, he was banned from teaching at the
University of Halle
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by the Nazi regime and he moved to Brazil where he worked as a botanist at the Museu Paranaense and the Instituto de Biologia. He visited Germany once in 1955 and retired in 1958. He died in Curitiba in 1969.
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