Algot Lange

Algot Lange, c. 1910 – c. 1915

Åke Algot Lange (born Åke Mortimer Lange; 10 May 1884 – 21 February 1961) was a Swedish-American explorer who wrote books about the Amazon.[1]

Biography

Lange was born in Stockholm as Åke Mortimer Lange, but later he took his father's name as his middle name. His parents were the opera singer Algot Lange and the pianist and author Ina Lange née Forstén.[2]

He collected 2,000 pottery fragments from Pacoval Island in Lake Arary on Marajo Island, which were acquired by the American Museum of Natural History in 1915.[3]

Lange immigrated to the United States in 1904 and became a U.S. citizen in 1915.[4] He died in 1961 in New York City.[5][6]

Publications

  • In the Amazon jungle: adventures in remote parts of the upper Amazon river (1912) with J. Odell Hauser and Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh
  • The lower Amazon: a narrative of explorations in the little known regions (1914):[7] Supplements In the Amazon jungle "with a most readable account of the new explorations and discoveries in this enormously rich but little known country. Profusely illustrated."[8]

References

  1. ^ "Algot Lange, Brazilian Explorer, Can Find No One to Buy His Prehistoric Pottery. Valuable Collection, but No Room for It, Say Natural History Museum Heads". The New York Times. April 7, 1915. Retrieved 2009-12-05. If Algot Lange, the explorer, does not alter his vehemently expressed intention, and if the Harbor Police do not interfere, 5,000 pieces and fragments of prehistoric pottery dug from the mud of a sunken island at the mouth of the Amazon River will find a second watery resting place at the bottom of the East River.
  2. ^ World War I draft registration
  3. ^ "Museum Notes". American Museum Journal. American Museum of Natural History: 432. 1915.
  4. ^ New York, U.S., State and Federal Naturalization Records, 1794-1943
  5. ^ New York, New York, U.S., Death Index, 1949–1965
  6. ^ Fonseca, Raphael (2015). "Katú Kama-rãh: friendship, image and text according to Algot Lange". www.dezenovevinte.net. Retrieved 2021-07-15.
  7. ^ Lange, Algot (1914). The lower Amazon: a narrative of explorations in the little known regions. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Retrieved July 24, 2012.
  8. ^ "Books of the week". The Independent. Nov 30, 1914. Retrieved July 24, 2012.
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