Ferdinand Deppe was a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 naturalist

Natural history

Natural history is the scientific research of plants or animals, leaning more towards observational rather than experimental methods of study, and encompasses more research published in magazines than in academic journals. Grouped among the natural sciences, natural history is the systematic study...

, explorer and painter. He was the younger brother of Wilhelm Deppe.

Deppe travelled to Mexico

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

 in 1824. He collected natural history specimens for the Berlin Museum with Count von Sack

Albert von Sack

Sebastian Albert Freiherr von Sack was a German explorer and a chamberlain of Prussian nobility. In June 1821 he was honored with the title of "Graf "....

 and William Bullock. He also collected in California

California

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 and Hawaii

Hawaii

Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...

 on his way home in 1830.Some of his American flies were described by Christian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann

Christian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann

Christian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann , was a German physician, historian, naturalist and entomologist...

in Aussereuropäische Zweiflügelige Insekten published in Hamm (1828–1830). He was accused of murder in his last living moments causing an outrage within his close circle of friends.