Johan Nieuhof
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 352 years ago |
Date of birth | July 22,1618 |
Zodiac sign | Cancer |
Born | Uelsen |
Germany | |
Date of died | October 8,1672 |
Died | Madagascar |
Job | Anthropologist |
Explorer | |
Linguist | |
Books | An embassy from the East-India Company |
Voyages & Travels to the East Indies 1653-1670 | |
Voyages Into Brazil and the East Indies. Description of Brazil, and Other Parts of East Indies, and North Europe (See Churchill Collection Vol. 2) | |
An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China: Delivered by Their Excellcies Peter de Goyer, and Jacob de Keyzer at His Imperial City of Peking : Wherein the Cities, Towns, Villages, Ports, Rivers, &c. in Their Passages from Canton to Peking are Ingeniously Described | |
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ID | 532648 |
Johan Nieuhof Life story
Johan Nieuhof was a Dutch traveler who wrote about his journeys to Brazil, China and India. The most famous of these was a trip of 2,400 km from Canton to Peking in 1655-1657, which enabled him to become an authoritative Western writer on China.