Franz Stuhlmann

Franz Ludwig Stuhlmann (29 October 1863 – 19 November 1928) was a German naturalist, zoologist and African explorer, born in Hamburg.

He carried on his work well beyond retirement age and contracted cancer and died in November 1928 following an operation.

After studying at Tübingen and Freiburg, he went to East Africa in 1888, and during the revolt of the Arabs in 1890 entered the German corps of defense as a lieutenant, and was severely wounded at Lembula.

After his recovery he joined the expedition of Emin Pasha to the lake region, was sent ahead from Undussuma to Lake Victoria, and reached the coast in July, 1892, at Bagamoyo, whence he returned to Germany with valuable cartographic material and rich collections, to which he added copiously on another trip to German East Africa, undertaken in 1893-94 by order of the government.

[3] The Kingani mormyrid, Petrocephalus stuhlmanni Boulenger, 1909, is a species of electric fish in the family Mormyridae, found only in the Ruvu River and Wami in Tanzania.