Otto Schlüter is remembered for reaching places that the written record had not yet described.
The record lists Otto Schlüter as German geographer (1872–1959).
Otto Schlüter was born at Witten in 1872. His recorded nationality is Germany.
Nineteenth-century exploration turned inland - Africa, Asia and Australia - and was entangled from the start with empire, missions and the geographical societies that funded it.
He is recorded as geographer and university teacher.
What an expedition is remembered for is rarely what it set out to do.
Recognition followed: Carl-Ritter-Medal and Goethe Medal for Art and Science.
Otto Schlüter died in 1959, aged 87. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.
Achievements
- Carl-Ritter-Medal
- Goethe Medal for Art and Science
- Recorded as geographer and university teacher
