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	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Jean Frederic Waldeck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Waldeck was undoubtably a man of talent and accomplishments, but his love of self promotion and refusal to let the truth get in the way of a good story leave some aspects of his life in mystery.
		Waldeck's first contact with the art of ancient Mesoamerica seems to have been when he was hired by Lord Kingsborough to make engravings based on drawings of the city of Palenque.
		Waldeck's engravings were much more beautiful and artistic than the original drawings he worked from, and gave the monuments a decidedly Egyptian look, in line with his patron's views that the ancient Mesoamerican Native Americans were the Lost Tribes of Israel.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/je/Jean_Frederic_Waldeck (433 words)

	CalendarHome.com - Jean-Frédéric Waldeck - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Jean Frederic Maximilien de Waldeck (June 13, 1766 - April 30, 1875) was a French antiquarian, cartographer, artist and explorer.
		Waldeck was undoubtedly a man of talent and accomplishments, but his love of self promotion and refusal to let the truth get in the way of a good story leave some aspects of his life in mystery.
		Waldeck claimed to have found a set of tracings of the I Modi prints in a convent near Palenque in Mexico.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Jean_Frederic_Waldeck (791 words)

	Jean-Frédéric Waldeck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Waldeck was undoubtably a man of talent and accomplishments, but his love of self promotion and refusal to let the truth get in the way of a good story leave some aspects of his life in mystery.
		Waldeck's first contact with the art of ancient Mesoamerica seems to have been when he was hired by Lord Kingsborough to make engravings based on drawings of the city of Palenque.
		Waldeck's engravings were much more beautiful and artistic than the original drawings he worked from, and gave the monuments a decidedly Egyptian look, in line with his patron's views that the ancient Mesoamerican Native Americans were the Lost Tribes of Israel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jean_Frederic_Waldeck (623 words)

	Jean Frederick Waldeck
		Jean Frederick Waldeck was born on March 16, 1766 in Paris, France.
		During his adolescence, exploration became an interest to Waldeck and by the age of 19 Waldeck was able to explore the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa.
		Waldeck was made a member of the Council of American Archaeology in 1836.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/uvwxyz/waldeck_jean.html (536 words)

	Esther Pasztory
		Waldeck was fascinated by Aztec culture in Mexico City as his drawings and paintings especially on the subjects of warriors and sacrifice indicate.
		This fascination with cruelty was focused for Waldeck and his contemporaries on the flaying ritual of the Aztecs, in which a priest wears the skin of a sacrificial victim..”
		Waldeck actually went to Mexico to search out the recently found Maya ruins of Palenque and despite the turmoil of the wars of Independence he accomplished his purpose going “native” for a time.
	www.columbia.edu /~ep9/current.html (481 words)

	de Le Mesl à Le Rouvillois
		• Le Miere De Corvey Jean Frederic Auguste
		• Le Monnier De Gouville Jean Marie Joseph Louis
		• Le Pelley Dumanoir Charles Marie Jean Armand
	www.patrimoine-de-france.org /hommes/honneurs-265.html (1485 words)

	Jean Frederic de Waldeck
		WALDECK, Jean Frederic de, archeologist, born in Paris, France, 16 March, 1766; died there, 30 April, 1875.
		They were published in 1863, and De Waldeck was engaged to make the lithographs, though he had passed his hundredth year.
		Two of his Mexican pictures were exhibited in 1869, under the title of "Loisir du centenaire." In the same year he sent the senior editor of this work; the original picture from which the accompanying portrait and autograph are taken.
	famousamericans.net /jeanfredericdewaldeck (695 words)

	Encyclopedia: Jean-FrÃ©dÃ©ric Waldeck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Jean-Frédéric Waldeck, engraving portrait, published 1889 This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years.
		The Republic of South Africa is a large republic located at the southern tip of the continent.
		Mesoamerica is the region extending from central Mexico south to the northwestern border of Costa Rica that gave rise to a group of stratified, culturally related agrarian civilizations spanning an approximately 3,000-year period before the European discovery of the New World by Columbus.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Jean_Fr%E9d%E9ric-Waldeck (1820 words)

	Americana
		Waldeck, a French archaeologist, studied the Toltec and Aztec ruins in Mexico.
		A native soldier from the Yucatan, published in Jean Frederic de Waldeck's "Voyage archaeologique et pittoresque dans la Yucatan".
		A native smuggler from the Yucatan, published in Jean Frederic de Waldeck's "Voyage archaeologique et pittoresque dans la Yucatan".
	www.grosvenorprints.com /america.htm (4016 words)

	Chapter 13: Jay I. Kislak Collection, Miami Lakes
		The lithographer, who added his own enhancements to the drawings, was Jean Frederic Waldeck of Paris.
		Waldeck’s doubts that the drawings were authentic eventually led him to travel to Palenque and to embark on his own publishing venture.
		In 1935, anthropologist Clyde Kluckhohn suggested that Waldeck had worked from originals created by Guillermo Dupaix’s artist, Casteneda, presumably made in 1807.
	www.library.miami.edu /treasure/chapters/chaptr13.html (1470 words)

	WALDECK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Search the WALDECK Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available).
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	www.worldhistory.com /surname/US/W/WALDECK.htm (73 words)

	Recording architecture at the archaeological site of Uxmal: A historical and contemporary view.
		Military forces and travellers visited it, but it was not until the 17th century that an historical account of the city was written by the Spanish scholar Diego Lopez de Cogolludo.
		The historian Brunhouse states of Waldeck that his "aptitude was for art" (Brunhouse 1974:79, and Baudez 1993).
		In many ways the accurately overlapping stereo images of the Governor's Palace made by the Le Plongeons in the 1870s, using improvised tripods and platforms, anticipate the precisely controlled 3-D photogrammetric images made by the 1999 Adivino Project team from scaffolds and a hydraulic lift.
	maya.csuhayward.edu /archaeoplanet/LgdPage/UxDocHist.html (7101 words)

	Encyclopedia: Jean Frederic Waldeck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
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		Waldeck biography from Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography (http://www.famousamericans.net/jeanfredericdewaldeck/) with portrait
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	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Jean-Frederic-Waldeck (467 words)

	List of explorers
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	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/l/li/list_of_explorers.html (1113 words)

	Jean-Frédéric Waldeck : Jean Frederic Waldeck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
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	Athena Review 2,2: Maya Lowland Centers: Uxmal
		The earliest descriptions of Uxmal are by Count Jean-Frédéric Waldeck in 1836.
		A few years later in 1841, John L. Stephens and Frederic Catherwood visited Uxmal and, (here as elsewhere) produced relatively accurate, detailed descriptions and site plans.
		Initial excavations at Uxmal were conducted in 1929, 1936 and 1938 by Franz Blom.
	www.athenapub.com /uxmal1.htm (1467 words)

	Uxmal
		The site, located not far from Mérida beside a road to Campeche, has attracted many visitors since the time of Mexico's independence.
		The first detailed account of the ruins was published by Jean Frederic Waldeck in 1838.
		John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood made two extended visits to Uxmal in the early 1840s, with architect/draftsman Catherwood reportedly making so many plans and drawings that they could be used to construct a duplicate of the ancient city (unfortunately most of the drawings are lost).
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/u/ux/uxmal.html (923 words)

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