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Alfredo Jahn
Dr. Alfredo Jahn Hartman
(8 October 1867 – 12 July 1940) was a
Venezuelan
civil engineer
,
botanist
and
geographer
. Jahn was a member of the Academy of History, the Academy of Physical Sciences,
Mathematics
and Naturalist of Venezuela and the Venezuelan Society of Natural Sciences and achieved the
Order of the Liberator
. He was also an
explorer
and
mountain climber
. There is a large cave named after Jahn, "Cueva Alfredo Jahn" (The Alfredo Jahn cave). In 1911 he became the first person to
ascend
Pico Humboldt
in the
Sierra Nevada de Mérida
in Venezuela.
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