Robert Hermann Schomburgk

Robert Hermann Schomburgk
Born5 June 1804 Edit this on Wikidata
Freyburg Edit this on Wikidata
Died11 March 1865 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 60)
Schöneberg Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationDiplomat, world traveler, illustrator, merchant, writer Edit this on Wikidata
Awards
  • Patron’s Medal (John Wood, For his perseverance and success in exploring the territory and investigating the resources of British Guyana, 2, Eduard Rüppell, 1840) Edit this on Wikidata

Sir Robert Hermann Schomburgk (5 June 1804 – 11 March 1865) was a Holy Roman Empire-born explorer for Great Britain who carried out geographical, ethnological and botanical studies in South America and the West Indies, and also fulfilled diplomatic missions for the United Kingdom in the Dominican Republic and Thailand.