Carl Ferdinand Appun


Carl Ferdinand Appun was a German naturalist.
On the recommendation of Alexander von Humboldt Appun was employed by Frederick William IV of Prussia as a botanist in Venezuela where excepting a one-year break in Germany, he spent ten years exploring the flora. After that he went to British Guayana, where he researched as a botanist on behalf the British government. He also visited parts of Brazil -the Rio Branco and Rio Negro on the Amazon to Tabatinga. During a visit in Germany he published a set of essays in different magazines. His best known work Unter den Tropen was at that time extremely popular. In 1871 he undertook a second exploration of Guyana, where he had an accident which led to his death. His last writings were essays about :Category:Indigenous peoples in Venezuela|Indigenous peoples in Venezuela.
Appun described many new plant species and is also known as an entomologist.

Works

The Museum für Naturkunde contains Diptera collected by Appun in Colombia.