Heinrich Zollinger
Heinrich Zollinger is a explorer and a Botaniste Suisse, born in 1818 and died in 1859.
It raises and disciple of Thomas Scherr (1801-1870), first normal principal teachers of Küsnacht. Zollinger becomes schoolmaster in September 1839 in the canton of Zurich. It makes a study trip to Geneva and meets there Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyrame de Candolle (1806-1893). This one proposes to him to leave for Southeast Asia in order to collect specimens of natural history there. Zollinger being committed forwarding these specimens to the people financing her voyage.
It thus leaves 1842 to 1848 to Java and in the islands of the Probe. It studies there in particular several volcanos, often for the first time by an European. In addition to the many specimens which it reports of its voyage, it makes many observations on the ethnography and the linguistics of the people which it meets. On its Swiss return in in 1848, it takes the direction of the teacher training school of Küsnacht but it is languished in this new activity. It sets out again in 1855 in Indonesia.
| Random links: | Faucigny (Haute-Savoie) | Thomas Coram | DaN Ar Wern | Economy of Africa | Acephalia (anatomy) | Edith Zimmermann | Strib |