extensive ethnographical and ornithological collections are preserved in museums in Vienna and Ljubljana, and the studies that he prepared on the Dinka and Bari languages are in the Austrian National Library. Knoblecher was baptized Ignatius Knoblecher in 1819. The spelling of his surname as Knobleher appears in Slovene publications by 1846, and Knoblehar by 1849. References Attribution The entry cites: Mitterrutzner, Dr. Ignaz Knoblecher, apostolischer Provicar der Kath. Miss. In Central-Africa (Brixen, 1869). Peter Rohrbacher: Logwit-lo-Ladú (1848–1866): Seine Bedeutung als afrikanische Gewährsperson in der Frühphase der österreichischen Afrikanistik in: Michel Espagne; Pascale Rabault, David Simo (Hg.), Afrikanische Deutschland-Studien und deutsche Afrikanistik – ein Spiegelbild. Würzburg 2014, 49–72. 1819 births 1858 deaths Slovenian Roman Catholic missionaries Slovenian theologians 19th-century Slovenian Roman Catholic priests Explorers of Africa Slovenian explorers People from the Municipality of Škocjan Roman Catholic missionaries in Sudan