Headstone of Paul DuChaillu at Woodlawn Cemetery Paul Du Chailli
Paul Belloni du Chaillu (July 31, 1831 (disputed) - April 29, 1903) was a French-American traveler and anthropologist. He became famous in the 1860s because he could confirm the existence of gorillas during his journey through West Africa. Among other things, he wrote many books about this.
He was sent on an African expedition in 1855 by the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. Until 1859 he explored the regions of West Africa near the equator, gaining great knowledge of the interior of Gabon. During his travels in 1856-1859, he noticed numerous gorillas, op. He brought dead gorillas back to America and presented himself as the first white man who had ever seen a gorilla.
He sold his killed gorillas to the Natural History Museum in London. Stories of his expeditions were published, for example in 1861 and 1867 the title Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa, with Accounts of the Manners and Customs of the People, and of the Gorilla, Crocodile, and other Animals. In 1865, he was elected king of the Apingi tribe. He did many public lectures in New York, London and Paris.
After spending several years in America, in which he wrote several books for young readers based on his African adventures, du Chaillu turned his attention to Northern Europe. After a visit to the north of Norway in 1871, he wrote the book The Land of the Midnight Sun, published in 1881, dedicated to Robert Winthrop. In 1889 he published the book The Viking Age (in two parts) this was a very broad study of the early history, customs and customs of the ancestors of the English-speaking countries.
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