Victor Wolfgang von Hagen (February 29, 1908 - March 8, 1985) was a world-famous explorer, naturalist, and ethnographer who was involved in continuous fieldwork for more than thirt...показать большеVictor Wolfgang von Hagen (February 29, 1908 - March 8, 1985) was a world-famous explorer, naturalist, and ethnographer who was involved in continuous fieldwork for more than thirty years.
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, his career began with the Mexico Expedition of 1931-1933 and led to the Roman Roads Explorations of Italy, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Arabia, and Petra. It was for Central and South America, however, that he developed a special interest during these years; he discovered the ‘extinct’ tribe of Jicaque Indians in Honduras, and undertook explorations of Ecuador, the Amazon, Peru, and the Galapagos Islands (1934-1936), Honduras, the Mosquito Coast, and Guatemala (1937-1938), Panama and Costa Rica (1940), and Colombia and Peru (1947-1948).
Victor von Hagen is the author of more than 50 books, among them Ecuador the Unknown (1939); The Riches of South America (1941); The Aztec and Maya Papermakers (1943); Jungle in the Clouds (1945); Maya Explorer, the life of John Lloyd Stephens (1947) El Dorado, The Golden Kingdoms of Colombia (1951); The Four Seasons of Manuela (1952); The Desert Kingdoms of Peru (1965); and The Roads that Led to Rome (1967).
He died in Italy in 1985 at the age of 77.показать меньше