NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Burckhardt, John Lewis, 1784-1817 DNB: Burckhardt, Johann Ludwig (1784-1817), traveller LBT ID: JoBurck1817 VIAF ID: 59176329 LOC ID: n50045595 | B/BAP: 1784-11-25 DIED: 1817-10-15 |
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Born at Lausanne, he studied Arabic at Cambridge and traveled throughout the Middle East
disguised as a Mohammedan trader; his journals were posthumously published. | |
REFERENCES TO WORKS BY Johann Ludwig Burckhardt:
Travels in Nubia. Found 2.
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