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Otto Ehrenfried Ehlers

1855 – 1895

German travel writer

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Lived 1855 – 1895 (aged 40). Otto Ehrenfried Ehlers was an explorer, writer, poet, politician, farmer and beamter.

Otto E. Ehlers, from Jahrbuch der Berliner Morgenzeitung, Kalender 1897

Otto Ehrenfried Ehlers (31 January 1855 – 3 October 1895) was a German explorer and travel writer who is known in English-speaking countries for his account of a long trip through inland Southeast Asia, documented in his 1894 book Im Sattel durch Indochina, and republished in 2002 by White Lotus Press of Thailand in English as a three-part series entitled On Horseback Through Indochina.

Biography He was born on 31 January 1855 in Hamburg. He died on 3 October 1895 in Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, part of German New Guinea while attempting to cross the island of New Guinea from north to south.

Works Kornähren der Poesie. Bremen, 1875; Bremen: Verlag von J. Kühlmann's Buchhandlung, 1880; Norden, 1888 - poetry An indischen Fürstenhöfen, Berlin: Allgemeiner Verein für Deutsche Literatur, 1894; An indischen Fürstenhöfen, Berlin: Berlin. Hermann Paetel, 1909 (Sammlung belehrender Unterhaltunsschriften für die deutsche Jugend, 32 and 33), 2 volumes Im Sattel durch Indo-China, Berlin: Allgemeiner Verein für Deutsche Literatur, 1894, 2 volumes; English translation: On Horseback Through Indochina, 3 volumes, Bangkok: White Lotus Press, 2002 Meine erste Reise nach Zanzibar. In: Velhagen und Klasings Monatshefte, Jg. 9 (1894/95), Bd. 2, Heft 7, March 1895, pp. 81–95 Reisebilder aus Siam. Leipzig: R. Voigtländer, n.d. (ca 1927) (Voigtländers Volksbücher, 45) Samoa, die Perle der Südsee – à jour gefaßt, Berlin: Hermann Paetel, 1895; Berlin: Hermann Paetel, 1900 (Unterhaltungsschriften für die deutsche Jugend, 1). New edition: Samoa, die Perle der Südsee. Düsseldorf: Lilienfeld Verlag, 2008, with an afterword by Hermann Joseph Hiery, ISBN 978-3-940357-04-5 Im Osten Asiens, Berlin: Allgemeiner Verein für Deutsche Literatur, 1896

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Who was Otto Ehrenfried Ehlers?

German travel writer (1855-1895)

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Otto Ehrenfried Ehlers was born on 31 January 1855 in Hamburg.

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Otto Ehrenfried Ehlers died on 3 October 1895 in Kaiser-Wilhelmsland.

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Otto Ehrenfried Ehlers was an explorer, writer, poet, politician, farmer and beamter.

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Otto Ehrenfried Ehlers's recorded nationality: Hamburg.

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