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DR. HEINRICH OSCAR LENZ, the Austrian geographer, whose recent death at Vienna has been announced, was born in 1848. He first went to Africa in 1875 under the auspices of the German Africa Society to make a geological examination of the Lower Ogowe in the Gabun region. In 1879 the same body sent him to Morocco with the view of exploring the valleys of the Atlas. In the face of great difficulties he made a remarkable journey across the Sahara by way of Tarudant, Tenduf, and Arawan to Timbuktu and thence westward through Senegal to the coast. A great part of this journey was over new ground. It was described in his “Timbuktu: Reise durch Marokko” (1884). Lenz's later explorations, which were in the Congo basin, were of less importance. Sent in 1885 by the Vienna Geographical Society to obtain news of Emir Pasha, he ascended the Congo to Nyangwe, and striking eastward reached Lake Tanganyika and Ujiji. The traverse of Africa was completed by Lake Nyassa and the River Shire. For his African work Lenz received the gold medal of the Paris Geographical Society. For some years he was professor of geography at Prague.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 115, 578 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115578a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/115578a0