Johannes Rudolf Roth was a German

Germany

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 zoologist

Zoology

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 and traveler.

Roth was born in Nuremberg

Nuremberg

Nuremberg[p] is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Situated on the Pegnitz river and the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, it is located about north of Munich and is Franconia's largest city. The population is 505,664...

 to Karl Johann Friedrich von Roth, supreme president of the Bavarian consistory

Consistory

-Antiquity:Originally, the Latin word consistorium meant simply 'sitting together', just as the Greek synedrion ....

 (Oberkonsistorialpräsidenten). The younger Roth studied medicine

Medicine

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 and natural sciences, and in 1836–37 accompanied Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert

Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert

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 on his expedition to Egypt

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 and Palestine

Palestine

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. Beginning in 1839 he traveled to the East Indies

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 and the northwest coast of Africa

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. In 1843 he became Professor of Zoology at the University of Munich

Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich

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. He undertook two more journeys to Palestine

Palestine

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, starting in 1852 and 1856 respectively, and died on the latter in 1858, while in the Anti-Lebanon

Anti-Lebanon

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