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Erdmann, Friedrich (c. 1866 - 1907)
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Friedrich Erdmann was a merchant from Hamburg. He worked as a managing director for the trading company Bey & Zimmer (see Bey & Co.) in Lagos, Warri and Sapele in southern Nigeria. (Reuther & Schulze, 2018, 32-35[225]). Erdmann is known to have visited Benin City after it was conquered by the troops of the British Military Campaign on Benin, taking the artefacts that remained to sell with the permission of the British military as well as photographing the area.

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