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  Carsten Niebuhr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Carsten Niebuhr (March 17, 1733 - April 26, 1815) was a German traveller.
Niebuhr was born at Lüdingworth, Land Hadeln/Lower Saxony, the son of a small farmer.
His son Barthold Georg Niebuhr published a short Life at Kiel in 1817; an English version was issued in 1838 in the Lives of Eminent Men, published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
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 Carsten Niebuhr   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
He was born at Lüdingworth, Lauenburg, on the southern border of Holstein, the son of a small farmer.
Niebuhr seems to have saved his own life and restored his health by adopting the native habits as to dress and food.
Niebuhr was an accurate and careful observer, had the instincts of the scholar, was animated by a high moral purpose, and was rigorously conscientious and anxiously truthful in recording the results of his observation.
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Niebuhr, compiling an account from his own observations and notes of his colleagues, gave Western European scholars a first hand glimpse of a part of the world that was virgin terra incognita at this time.
The members of the expedition were Carsten Niebuhr (basically a graduate student), von Haven (the Arabist), Forskal (the botanist), Kramer (the physician), and Baurenfeind (the artist).
Niebuhr was an apt observer of Egyptian culture, noting, for example, that Arabic "in the mouths of the Egyptians" "difplays little of its genune purity" (p.
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 British-Yemeni Society: In the steps of Carsten Niebuhr
It had thus fallen to Niebuhr, whose quiet, self-effacing nature belied his exceptional diligence and versatility, to shoulder much of the administrative responsibility; and it was Niebuhr who made the most complete and informative record of the expedition that has become so closely linked with his name.
In Yarim, Niebuhr sketched a view of the Muslim cemetery, mosque and distant mountain ridge; and we spent an hour or so trying to align his published drawing with today’s landscape, concluding that he had exercised a degree of artistic licence.
Niebuhr, in a race against time to catch a boat from Mocha, had taken the shortest route from Mafhaq via Wadi Siham and Bait al-Faqih.
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 CARSTEN NIEBUHR: Carsten Niebuhrs rejsebeskrivelse fra Arabien og andre omkringliggende lande. Bind 1 og 2. Carsten ...
CARSTEN NIEBUHR: Carsten Niebuhrs rejsebeskrivelse fra Arabien og andre omkringliggende lande.
Fortællingens omdrejningspunkt er Den Arabiske Rejse, som prægede Carsten Niebuhr helt til hans død som 82-årig.
Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1776-1831) virkede som embedsmand, diplomat og historiker i dansk og preussisk tjeneste.
www.adlandia.dk /niebuhr.htm   (495 words)

  
 Forlaget Vandkunsten - Carsten Niebuhr Biblioteket
Blomster og haver i islam som bind 13 i Carsten Niebuhr Biblioteket.
Carsten Niebuhrs rejsebeskrivelse fra Arabien og andre omkringliggende lande bind I
Carsten Niebuhrs rejsebeskrivelse fra Arabien og andre omkringliggende lande bind II
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 Tyrkisk
Tyrkiskstudiet er en del af Carsten Niebuhr Afdelingen (CNA) ved Institut for Tværkulturelle og Regionale Studier (ToRS).
Carsten Niebuhr Afdelingen består af syv mindre fag (arabisk, assyriologi, hebraisk, nærorientalsk arkæologi, persisk, tyrkisk og ægyptologi), der alle har det til fælles, at de beskæftiger sig med Mellemøsten.
Næste gang du kan blive optaget på uddannelsen er i 2008, derefter 2010 osv.
tyrkisk.ku.dk   (123 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Political Situation Egpt (Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications): Books: Kim Ryholt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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