Paul du Chaillu

French-American anthropologist, zoologist and traveler

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Lived 1835–1903, aged 68France
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    1835–1903
    Aged 68
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Updated 2026-07-17

Paul Belloni Du Chaillu was a French-American traveler, zoologist, and anthropologist. He became famous in the 1860s as the first modern European outsider to confirm the existence of gorillas, and later the Pygmy people of central Africa. He later researched the prehistory of Scandinavia.

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