Adolf Ernst was a German botanist and zoologist. Ernst moved to Caracas (Venezuela) in 1861, where he researched the country’s flora and fauna. He was co-founder of the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales and the library of the Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas.

Material:

• 1 case. The material focuses on botany in Venezuela.
• sketches and handwritten notes (approx. 30 sheets)
• transcripts and excerpts (“Caqueticos. Colección de palabras de Petrus Martyr”; “Historia natural y general de las Indias”; “Von der neuen Welt”; “Etymologisches von Venezuelas Nordküste”; “Observations étymologiques sur la découverte des côtes de Vénezuéla”; “Analyse zu Federmann”)
• illustrations
• correspondence (these documents, which date from 1933, were given to H. Ahrensburg)
• newspaper clippings
• 1 photograph

Keywords: Venezuela, natural sciences