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    Carsten Niebuhr, or Karsten Niebuhr (17 March 1733 Lüdingworth – 26 April 1815 Meldorf, Dithmarschen), was a German mathematician, cartographer, and explorer...
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  • and historian Carsten Niebuhr, (1733–1815), 18th-century German traveller, explorer and surveyor, and father of Barthold Georg Niebuhr (sometimes mistakenly...
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    general and particular phenomena in history. Niebuhr was born in Copenhagen, the son of Carsten Niebuhr, a prominent German geographer resident in that...
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    in 1778 by Carsten Niebuhr. Niebuhr's publication was used by Grotefend in 1802 to make the first breakthrough – the realization that Niebuhr had published...
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    Denmark to join, amongst others, the orientalist and mathematician Carsten Niebuhr on an expedition to Arabia. The group first went to Egypt where they...
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    the area led by Carsten Niebuhr lasting from 1761 to 1767. The historian Lawrence J. Baack in his book, Undying Curiosity: Carsten Niebuhr and the Royal...
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  • history, geography, and cartography. It had six members, of whom only Carsten Niebuhr survived, returning to Denmark in 1767. The journey has been chronicled...
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    it played in trade with India through Mocha. The German researcher Carsten Niebuhr who visited Yemen in 1763, reports that two years before he arrived...
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  • "independent state" in Bushehr and Bahrain. The account by German geographer Carsten Niebuhr who visited the region at the time describes Sheikh Nasr as "the sole...
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  • in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, c. 1800–1550 B.C. (Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications. Vol. 20, ISSN 0902-5499). Copenhagen 1997,...
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  • Intermediate Period, c. 1800-1550 B.C. Adam Bülow-Jacobsen. Copenhagen: Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Near Eastern Studies, University of Copenhagen. p. 305...
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    inscription and made preliminary drawings of the monument. German surveyor Carsten Niebuhr visited in around 1764 for Frederick V of Denmark, publishing a copy...
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    mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Catalog of Fishes lists the authority as " Fabricius [J. C.] (ex Forsskål) in Niebuhr 1775" and states that the...
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    Governorate, Iraq. The name Nimrud was recorded as the local name by Carsten Niebuhr in the mid-18th century. In the mid 19th century, biblical archaeologists...
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    Petachiah of Regensburg soon after. Carsten Niebuhr recorded its location during the 1761–1767 Danish expedition. Niebuhr wrote afterwards that "I did not...
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    Lieven: Grundriss des Laufes der Sterne. Das sogenannte Nutbuch. The Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Ancient Eastern Studies, Kopenhagen 2007. Collier, Mark;...
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    Second Intermediate Period, c. 1800–1550 B.C., Museum Tusculanum Press, Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications 20. 1997, p.185 "LacusCurtius • Manetho's History...
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    Lieven: Grundriss des Laufes der Sterne – Das sogenannte Nutbuch. The Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Ancient Eastern Studies (u. a.), Kopenhagen 2007, ISBN 978-87-635-0406-5...
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    Milli chief Timur as governor of Raqqa (1800–1803). The Danish writer Carsten Niebuhr, who traveled to Jazira in 1764, recorded five nomadic Kurdish tribes...
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  • Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, c.1800–1550 BC, Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications, vol. 20. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press...
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  • Halicarnassensis (one of his best pieces of work, highly praised by Carsten Niebuhr), Paeanius, Aristotle, the Greek and Latin sources for the history...
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    (1967–1974, 2009–present) Sassnitz, Germany (1990) Vannes, France (1963) Carsten Niebuhr (1733–1815), mathematician, cartographer and explorer. Joachim Ringelnatz...
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    Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, c.1800-1550 BC, Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications, vol. 20. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press...
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  • Inferiorem et Arabiam felicem detexit are published posthumously, edited by Carsten Niebuhr. May 22 – James Watt's 1769 steam engine patent is extended to June...
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    1778 Carsten Niebuhr, the Danish mathematician, published accurate copies of three trilingual inscriptions from the ruins at Persepolis. Niebuhr showed...
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    and Johann Christian Fabricius in the 'Descriptiones animalium' by Carsten Niebuhr in 1775 (Pisces)". Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde A, Neue Serie...
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    mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Catalog of Fishes lists the authority as "Fabricius [J. C.] (ex Forsskål) in Niebuhr 1775" and states that the...
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    Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period c.1800-1550 BC, Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications," vol.20. (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press...
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  • Herper; in the second, the Vulgate quite irrelevantly inserts Arcturus; Carsten Niebuhr (1733–1815) understood Kesil to mean Sirius; Thomas Hyde (1636–1703)...
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    Arabia Expedition (1761–67), conducted by Carsten Niebuhr and Peter Forsskål. The cuneiform inscriptions Niebuhr brought back from the expedition were the...
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