The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Engel, Franz

ENGEL, Franz, German explorer: b. Röbel, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, 1834. He traveled extensively in South America in the years 1857-63 and published the results of his explorations in several valuable volumes, including ‘Studien unter den Tropen Amerikas’ (2d ed., 1879); ‘Aus dem Pflanzerstaate Zulia’ (1881). From 1872 to 1896 he published the Landwirthschaftliche Jahrbücher.