Otto Ehrenfried Ehlers

Otto Ehrenfried Ehlers (31 January 1855 – 3 October 1895) was a German traveller who is known for his account of a long trip through inland Southeast Asia, documented in his 1894 book Im Sattel durch Indochina, and republished in 2002 by White Lotus Press of Thailand in English as a three-part series entitled On Horseback Through Indochina.^[1]

Otto E. Ehlers, from Jahrbuch der Berliner Morgenzeitung, Kalender 1897

Biography

He was born on 31 January 1855 in Hamburg. He died on 3 October 1895 in Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, part of German New Guinea while attempting to cross the island of New Guinea from north to south.^[2]