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HOLUB, EMIL (1847—1902)

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HOLUB, EMIL (1847—1902) , Bohemian traveller in See also:south-central See also:Africa, was See also:born at Holitz, eastern Bohemia, on the 7th of See also:October 1847. He was educated at See also:Prague University, where he graduated M.D. In 1872 he went td the See also:Kimberley See also:diamond-See also:fields, and with the See also:money earned by his practice as a surgeon undertook expeditions into the See also:northern See also:Transvaal, Mashonaland and through See also:Bechuanaland to the See also:Victoria Falls, making extensive natural See also:history collections, which he brought to See also:Europe in 1879 and distributed among over a See also:hundred museums and See also:schools. In 1883 he went back to South Africa with his wife, intending to See also:cross the See also:continent to See also:Egypt. In See also:June 1886 the party crossed the See also:Zambezi See also:west of the Victoria Falls, and explored the then almost unknown region between that See also:river and its tributary the Kafue. When beyond the Kafue the See also:camp was attacked by the Mashukulumbwe, and Holub was obliged to retrace his steps. He returned to See also:Austria in 1887 with a collection of See also:great scientific See also:interest, of over 13,000 See also:objects, now in various museums. Holub died at See also:Vienna on the 21st of See also:February 1902. His See also:principal See also:works are: Eine Culturskizze See also:des Marutse-Mambundareichs (Vienna, 1879) ; Sieben Jahre in Siidafrika, &c. (2 vols., Vienna, 188o-1881), of which an See also:English See also:translation appeared; See also:Die Colonisation Afrikas (Vienna, 1882) ; and Von der K_apstadt ins See also:Land der Maschukulumbe (2 vols., Vienna, 1818–189o).

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