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Discoverers Web: Niebuhr - English
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Born at Ludingworth, Lauenborg, Niebuhr worked as a peasant farmer in his early years, but managed to learn surveying. In 1760 he was invited as engineer-lieutenant to join the expedition being sent out by Frederick V of Denmark (at the suggestion of the Hebrew scholar Johann David Michaelis of Gцttingen) for the scientific exploration of Egypt, Syria and Arabia, the first of its kind. The team, which had no appointed leader, included Friedrich Christian von Haven (Danish linguist and orientalist), Pehr (or Peter) Forrskal (Swedish botanist), Christian Carl Kramer (Danish physician and zoologist), Georg Baurenfeind (artist, from southern Germany) and a Swedish ex-soldier named Berggren.

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Нибур Карстен - Russian
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(1723 — 1815) — исследователь Аравии. Создал первую карту восточной части Красного моря, первую карту и первое описание Йемена. В Месопотамии первым из европейцев посетил щнитские священные города Эн-Неджеф и Кербелу. Его труд «Описание Аравии» остается непревзойденным и по сей день.

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Niebuhr, Karsten (Explorers, Travelers, And Conquerors) - Encyclopedia - English
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1733–1815, German traveler in Arabia. He was sole survivor of a party of five (of whom the best known was Peter Forskal, a Swedish naturalist) sent by Frederick V of Denmark to explore Arabia (1761–63). From Mocha, Niebuhr sailed for India, returning to Europe by way of the Persian Gulf and the Tigris River, through Palestine, Syria, and Constantinople (1767). He wrote several accounts of his travels.

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