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Hans Herman Behr was born on 18 August 1818 in Koethen, Saxony-Anhalt.
He was a doctor, botanist and entomologist who made several trips to South Australia and eastern Asia.
His first voyage to South Australia left Bremerhaven on the George Washington on 27 May 1844, and arrived at Port Adelaide on 12 September 1844.[1] He returned to Europe on the Heerjeebhoy Rustomjee Patel via Batavia and Cape Town in 1845-1846.[2]
Due to political unrest in Germany, Behr's father arranged that he return to South Australia as the ship's surgeon on the Victoria, which departed on 15 June 1848, and stopped at Rio de Janiero en route to Port Adelaide, at which it arrived on 6 November 1848.[3] He then visited Manila in The Philippines by late 1849 but had moved on to San Francisco, California by September 1850 and lived out the rest of his life there.[2]
Behr died in San Francisco on 6 March 1904.
Sources
- ↑ Passenger list - George Washington The Ships List
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kraehenbuehl 1981
- ↑ Passenger list - Victoria, Hamburg to Port Adelaide, 1848 The Ships List
- Kraehenbuehl, Darrell N. (1981). "Dr. H.H. Behr's two visits to South Australia in 1844-45 and 1848-49" (PDF). Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Garden. 3 (1): 101–123. Retrieved 6 March 2023.
- Wikipedia: Hans Hermann Behr
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