Thaddäus Haenke was an Austrian botanist and explorer. He took part in the Spanish Malaspina expedition around the globe from 1789 to 1794.

Material:

• 7 documents (typed transcripts of documents from the Hof- und Staatsarchiv in Vienna – part of the Austrian State Archives – on Haenke’s travels in 1789)
• 8 diaries (copies of Haenke’s handwritten diaries on his travels to Peru in 1793-94)

Provenance: from Georg Petersen’s papers.
Keywords: Peru, travelogues