Kohl, JOHANN GEORG

Kohl, JOHANN GEORG, traveller and author, was born at Bremen, April 28, 1808, studied at Göttingen, Heidelberg, and Munich, and settled in Dresden in 1838. From this point he made excursions to every important district of Europe, and on his return from each expedition published his experience in a series of works. In 1854 he went to America, where he spent four years, and prepared a series of maps for the government. Returning to Germany he became city librarian at Bremen, and there died on 28th October 1878. His writings include works on Austria, Britain, the Rhine, the Alps, Russia, Denmark, the Netherlands, Istria, Dalmatia, and Montenegro (all between 1842 and 1851); also books of travel in Canada (1856) and the United States (New York, 1857); and histories of the discovery of America (1861; Eng. trans. 1862), of the north-eastern coast of America ('Maine Historical Collections,' Portland, 1869), and of Magellan Strait (1877).