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    Johann Ludwig (also known as John Lewis, Jean Louis) Burckhardt (24 November 1784 – 15 October 1817) was a Swiss traveller, geographer and Orientalist...
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    orientalist Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, the influential art historian Jacob Burckhardt and the international President of the Red Cross Carl Jacob Burckhardt. The...
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  • Johann Burckhardt may refer to: Johann Karl Burckhardt (1773–1825), German astronomer and mathematician Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784–1817), Swiss traveler...
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    unknown to the western world until 1812, when Swiss traveller Johann Ludwig Burckhardt rediscovered it. UNESCO has described Petra as "one of the most...
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    explorer, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt in 1809, tasking him to follow the same route from Cairo. Under orders to maintain a Muslim appearance, Burckhardt spent...
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    who visited the Kaaba disguised as pilgrims. Swiss traveller Johann Ludwig Burckhardt visited Mecca in 1814, and provided a detailed description in his...
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    forgotten by Europeans until March 1813, when the Swiss researcher Johann Ludwig Burckhardt found the small temple and top frieze of the main temple. When...
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    travellers in the region included Ulrich Jasper Seetzen (1805), Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1812), Charles Leonard Irby and James Mangles (1818), and Louis...
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  • Johann Jakob Burckhardt (13 July 1903 – 5 November 2006) was a Swiss mathematician and crystallographer. He was an invited speaker at the International...
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    Khazneh el-Far'oun, "Treasury of the Pharaoh". Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt wrote of another local legend that "ancient pharaonic treasures"...
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    Crone 1994, p. 17. Crone 1980, pp. 131, 133, 135. Burckhardt 2010, pp. 44–45. Burckhardt, Johann Ludwig (2010) [1830]. Notes on the Bedouins and Wahabys:...
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  • made. In 1815, following an idea mentioned to him by his friend Johann Ludwig Burckhardt of digging up the statue and bringing it to Britain, the British...
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    included Carsten Niebuhr in 1765, William Loftus in 1853, and Johann Ludwig Burckhardt in 1864.: 79  The Ottoman emperor Abdülaziz rebuilt the Clock Portal...
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    Fadil, The Ottoman State in the Arab Scope (in Arabic; 2007) Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, Travels in Syria and the Holy Land, Appendix II: On the Political...
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    Jean-Nicolas-Sébastien Allamand (1716–1787), natural philosopher Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784–1817), traveller, geographer and orientalist Oswald Heer...
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    continues to be used, in Arabic Bedouin music and is mentioned by Johann Ludwig Burckhardt in his travelog Travels in Arabia: "Of instruments they possess...
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    Simbel was discovered in 1813 by the Swiss Orientalist and traveler Johann Ludwig Burckhardt. An enormous pile of sand almost completely covered the facade...
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    provided provisions and ammunition. In 1812, the Swiss traveler Johann Ludwig Burckhardt found the castle inhabited by around forty people. Two major destructive...
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    nomads. It remained unknown until it was rediscovered in 1812 by Johann Ludwig Burckhardt. The religious architecture was mostly represented by the Nabatean...
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    Muslim families resided there, and in 1821, the Swiss traveler Johann Ludwig Burckhardt noted that the village was in a rather poor condition. During his...
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    Mungo Park, (1771–1806), Travels in the Interior of Africa (1816) Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, (1784–1817), Travels in Nubia (1819) Heinrich Barth, (1821–1865)...
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  • 1954), German politician Burckhardt Burckhardt, or (de) Bourcard, a family of the Basel patriciate Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784–1817), Swiss traveler...
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    in 1984 Following the discovery of Petra by the Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt in 1812, Charles Montagu Doughty, an English traveler, heard of...
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    Sennar, but by the 18th and 19th centuries, the Swiss traveler Johann Ludwig Burckhardt found two-thirds of the homes in ruins. The Khedive Isma'il received...
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    book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (John Lewis Burckhardt), Travels in Nubia 1819. Roberts, Edmund (1837). Embassy...
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    Abbas' tomb from the mosque building. In 1813, the Swiss traveller Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, who was visiting the Arabian Peninsula just after the takeover...
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    have been made. Following an idea mentioned to him by his friend Johann Ludwig Burckhardt of digging the statue and bringing it to Britain, the British Consul...
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    pandemic was Caragea's plague, between 1813 and 1814. Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt witnessed the plague epidemics that ravaged Hejaz and Egypt between...
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    Australian coasts Lafayette Bunnell American 19th Yosemite Valley Johann Ludwig Burckhardt Swiss 19th Middle East, Sudan Robert O'Hara Burke Irish 19th Australia...
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    Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse (German: [paʊl ˈhaɪzə] ; 15 March 1830 – 2 April 1914) was a German writer and translator. A member of two important literary...
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