Oscar Baumann

He attended classes on natural history and geography at the University of Vienna, and in 1885 was part of an Austrian exploratory expedition of the Congo Basin under the direction of Oskar Lenz.

Baumann is best known for his exploration of the interior of German East Africa (present-day Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi), and for producing maps of the region.

According to the British Rear-Admiral Edmund Fremantle:'They had been robbed, stripped, and subjected to every indignity, but except that they have lost all, including their instruments and observations, they do not seem much the worse'.

[2] Only after a large ransom was paid to rebel leader Abushiri ibn Salim al-Harthi were the two men released.

[9] The highest point of the German protectorate Togoland was called the Baumannspitze (present-day Mount Agou in Togo).