Ignaz Knoblecher, a German traveller, born in Carniola, July 6, 1819, died at Gon-dokoro, Africa, April 13, 1858. He was educated at the Propaganda in Rome with a view to devoting himself to the African mission, and after having been ordained went to Syria, where he passed a year in the study of Arabic. Thence he removed to Khartoom on the Nile, and in 1849 was ordered to ascend that river and establish a mission among some negro tribes near the equator. Accompanied by another priest, Angelo Vinco, he set out, Nov. 13, with the trading party which annually goes up the Nile, and on Jan. 14, 1850, reached the rapids in lat. 4° 49' N., the furthest point till then reached by any expedition. Knoblecher, however, succeeded in stemming the rapids, and on the 16th reached the village of Logwek, in lat. 4° 10'. He examined the Bahr el-Gha-i zal or Gazelle river, and returning to Germany i published an account of his explorations. He afterward fixed his residence at Khartoom, J having received the appointment of vicar general apostolic of central Africa.