Bessels, Emil, 1847-1888
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Name (Latin)
Bessels, Emil, 1847-1888
Date of birth
1847-06-03
Date of death
1888-03-30
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- NUCMC data from Library of Congress Manuscript Division for His Letter, 1870(Bessels, Emil; German)
- LC manual auth. cd.(hdg.: Bessels, Emil, 1847-1888)
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Emil Bessels 1880 (cropped)
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Wikipedia description:
Emil Bessels (2 June 1847 – 30 March 1888) was a German zoologist, entomologist, physician, and Arctic researcher who is best known for his controversial role in the attempted but ill-fated American Polaris expedition to the North Pole in 1871. Circumstantial evidence strongly points to Bessels as the most likely suspect in the death of the expedition's commander, American explorer Charles Francis Hall, by arsenic poisoning. Bessels spent much of his scientific career at the Smithsonian Institution.
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