Paul Du Chaillu

Paul Belloni Du Chaillu (July 31, 1831 (disputed) – April 29, 1903) was a French-American traveler, zoologist, and anthropologist. He became famous in the 1860s as the first modern European outsider to confirm the existence of gorillas, and later the Pygmy people of central Africa. He later researched the prehistory of Scandinavia.

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Paul Du Chaillu
Birth dateJanuary 01, 1831
Date of deathJanuary 01, 1903
Place of death
Saint Petersburg

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