Paul Pogge

Paul Friedrich Johann Moritz Pogge (24 December 1838 – 16 March 1884) was a German explorer in the African continent.

In 1865/66, he took his first journey to South Africa (Cape Colony, Natal) as a big game hunter.

On the first expedition he was accompanied by naturalist Alexander von Homeyer, and funded by the Deutschen Gesellschaft zur Erforschung Aequatorial-Afrikas.

[1] On his second journey he was accompanied by Hermann Wissmann, a trip in which the two explorers reached the site of Nyangwe on the Lualaba River.

In 1894, botanist Robert Louis August Maximilian Gürke published Poggea, a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Achariaceae and named after Paul Pogge.