Ernst Behm

Ernst Behm (4 January 1830 – 15 March 1884) was a German geographer and statistician who was a native of Gotha.

After leaving the Ernestine Gymnasium, Gotha, Behm studied medicine and sciences at the Universities of Jena, Berlin and Würzburg.

1-66, 1866-1983),[1] and from 1872, with Hermann Wagner (1840–1929), edited the geographical/statistical review, Die Bevölkerung der Erde.

In 1872, Behm published an article (Beweise für die Identität des Lualaba mit dem Congo), which scientifically demonstrated that the Lualaba was a headstream of the Congo River.

This claim was later confirmed as factual by explorer Henry Morton Stanley in 1877.