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AllRefer Encyclopedia - Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (Explorers, Travelers, And Conquerors) - Encyclopedia
European explorer, b. Switzerland, educated in Germany. Supported by an English association for promoting African discovery, he visited Egypt and Syria (1809–13), rediscovered Petra (1812), then, posing as a learned Muslim, he became the first Christian to reach Medina. [eng]
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1Up Info - Burckhardt, Johann Ludwig (Explorers, Travelers, And Conquerors) - Encyclopedia
1784–1817, European explorer, b. Switzerland, educated in Germany. Supported by an English association for promoting African discovery, he visited Egypt and Syria (1809–13), rediscovered Petra (1812), then, posing as a learned Muslim, he became the first Christian to reach Medina. He died while preparing to set out from Upper Egypt for his original goal, the Niger River. [eng]
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Burckhardt, Johann Ludwig. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
European explorer, b. Switzerland, educated in Germany. Supported by an English association for promoting African discovery, he visited Egypt and Syria (1809–13), rediscovered Petra (1812), then, posing as a learned Muslim, he became the first Christian to reach Medina. He died while preparing to set out from Upper Egypt for his original goal, the Niger River. Included in his Travels in Arabia (1829) is a notable account of Mecca. [eng]
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Burckhardt, Johann Ludwig
Unter dem Pseudonym Scheich Ibrahim ausgedehnte Reisen in Syrien, dem Libanon, Transjordanien, Ägypten, Nubien, Arabien und dem Sinai. 1812 Entdeckung von Petra (heute Jordanien), 1813 als erster Europäer in Abu Simbel (Ägypten). 1814 Besuch der hl. Stätten in Mekka und Medina, B. konvertierte vorgängig vermutlich zum Islam. [deu]
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Books by Johann Ludwig Burckhardt
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