Sámuel Teleki de Szék

In memoriam

gr. TELEKI SAMU 1845 XI. 1 - 1916 III. 10

Count Sámuel Teleki de Szék was born in Sáromberke, Torda cttus, Kingdom of Hungary (today: Dumbravioara, Mures, Romania) on November 1st, 1845, as the second child of count Sámuel Ferenc Teleki de Szék. As a young man he studied mineralogy, geology, geography and astronomy. In 1881 he became a member of the Hungarian Parliament. During his political carrier, he met and became close friend of crown prince Rudolf von Habsburg, the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It was Rudolf and his wife Stephanie who suggested him to set out for an expedition to East-Africa. They were the first to survey a great part of the East African Rift. Teleki was the first to reach the snow-line on Mount Kilimanjaro at 5,300 m, and the first explorer to set foot on Mount Kenya, climbing up to around 4,300 m. He later headed on northwards, following the interior river system, to discover on 5 March 1888 the last of the Great Lakes, referred to as the Jade Sea by Count Teleki, who named the l

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