Eduard Zander Abenteurer, Naturforscher, Maler, Architekt und Handwerker in Äthiopien – Eine Biographie

Abstract

Though Eduard Zander’s original sketchbook with drawings in pen and ink – showing the remote Simen Mountain area – is still preserved in London, his adventuresome life and his scientific and artistic work as a biologist, architect or artisan is scarcely known in 19^th century Ethiopian history.

In the present article the author makes an attempt at Zander’s biography, adding the missing links and correcting the errors of his few predecessors; furthermore, he tries to produce recently dicovered source-material in an updated form.