Ludwig Becker (explorer)

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Ludwig Phillip Heinrich Becker (5 or 9 September 1808 – 27 April 1861)^[1] was a German artist, explorer and naturalist. He was born in Rödelheim near Frankfurt am Main. He moved to Australia in 1850, and was a member of the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition. He died at the expedition's camp on the western bank of Koorliatto Waterhole, Bulloo River in 1861.