Johann Ludwig Krapf (born January 11, 1810 in Tübingen-Derendingen; died November 26, 1881 in Korntal-Münchingen) was a Germanmissionary in East Africa, an explorer, linguist, and traveler. January 11 is the 11th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1810 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Tübingen, Neckar front Tübingen, an old university city of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, is situated 20 miles southwest of Stuttgart, on a ridge between the River Neckar and the Ammer. ... There are a commune and a place that have the name Derendingen: In Switzerland Derendingen, Switzerland, in the Canton of Solothurn in Germany Derendingen, Germany, a part of Tübingen in the district of Tübingen,Baden-Württemberg This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might... November 26 is the 330th day (331st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1881 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... A missionary is a propagator of religion, often an evangelist or other representative of a religious community who works among those outside of that community. ... A satellite composite image of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest continent in both area and population, after Asia. ... See also explorations, sea explorers, astronaut, conquistador, travelogue, the History of Science and Technology and Biography. ...
He "discovered" (for the West) Mount Kenya in central Kenya. Mount Kenya is the highest mountain in Kenya, and the second-highest in Africa (after Mount Kilimanjaro). ...
In his home town of Tübingen-Derendingen there is an elementary school that bears his name.
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Biography in the Biographic-Bibliographic Church Lexicon (http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/k/Krapf.shtml) (in German)
Tabora (or Kazé, as it was then called) and Ujiji, on Lake Tanganyika, became important trading centres, and a number of Arabs made their homes there
The first Europeans to show an interest in Tanganyika in the 19th century were missionaries of the Church Missionary Society, JohannLudwigKrapf and Johannes Rebmann, who in the late 1840s reached Kilimanjaro.
It was a fellow missionary, Jakob Erhardt, whose famous "slug" map (showing, on Arab information, a vast, shapeless, inland lake) helped stimulate the interest of the British explorers Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke.
1701 - Johann Nikolaus Frobes, Mathematiker, Physiker und Philosoph
1778 - Agathon Fain, französischer Baron und Geheimsekretär Napoleons I. JohannLudwigKrapf, deutscher Missionar in Ostafrika, Entdecker und Afrikareisender
Namenstage: Adolf, Alwin, Mathilde, Paulinus, Paulus, Johannes, Weselius, Werner
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