Wilhelm Sievers

Wilhelm Sievers
During his first expedition to Colombia in 1886

Friedrich Wilhelm Sievers (3 December 1860 – 11 June 1921) was a German geologist and geographer. He served as a professor of geography at the University of Giessen. His fieldwork focused on South America, and his Allgemeine Länderkunde was a standard work on world geography for several decades.