List of Famous people with last name Bessels

Emil Bessels

First Name Emil

Born on June 2, 1847

Died on March 30, 1888 (aged 40)

Born in Germany, Baden-Württemberg

Emil Bessels was a German zoologist, entomologist, physician, and Arctic researcher who is best known for his controversial role in the attempted but ill-fated Polaris expedition to the North Pole in 1871. Circumstantial evidence strongly points to Bessels as the most likely suspect in the death of the expedition's commander, American explorer Charles Francis Hall, by arsenic poisoning.

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