German mathematician, cartographer and explorer (1733–1815)
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Carsten Niebuhr
Born
(1733-03-17)17 March 1733
Lüdingworth, Bremen-Verden
Died
26 April 1815(1815-04-26) (aged 82)
Meldorf, Dithmarschen
Nationality
German
Occupation(s)
Mathematician, cartographer, and explorer
Known for
Danish Arabia expedition (1761-1767)
Carsten Niebuhr, or Karsten Niebuhr (17 March 1733 Lüdingworth – 26 April 1815 Meldorf, Dithmarschen), was a German mathematician, cartographer, and explorer in the service of Denmark. He is renowned for his participation in the Danish Arabia expedition (1761-1767). He was the father of the Danish-German statesman and historian Barthold Georg Niebuhr, who published an account of his father's life in 1817.
CarstenNiebuhr, or Karsten Niebuhr (17 March 1733 Lüdingworth – 26 April 1815 Meldorf, Dithmarschen), was a German mathematician, cartographer, and explorer...
and historian CarstenNiebuhr, (1733–1815), 18th-century German traveller, explorer and surveyor, and father of Barthold Georg Niebuhr (sometimes mistakenly...
in 1778 by CarstenNiebuhr. Niebuhr's publication was used by Grotefend in 1802 to make the first breakthrough – the realization that Niebuhr had published...
general and particular phenomena in history. Niebuhr was born in Copenhagen, the son of CarstenNiebuhr, a prominent German geographer resident in that...
it played in trade with India through Mocha. The German researcher CarstenNiebuhr who visited Yemen in 1763, reports that two years before he arrived...
Intermediate Period, c. 1800-1550 B.C. Adam Bülow-Jacobsen. Copenhagen: CarstenNiebuhr Institute of Near Eastern Studies, University of Copenhagen. p. 305...
in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, c. 1800–1550 B.C. (CarstenNiebuhr Institute Publications. Vol. 20, ISSN 0902-5499). Copenhagen 1997,...
inscription and made preliminary drawings of the monument. German surveyor CarstenNiebuhr visited in around 1764 for Frederick V of Denmark, publishing a copy...
Petachiah of Regensburg soon after. CarstenNiebuhr recorded its location during the 1761–1767 Danish expedition. Niebuhr wrote afterwards that "I did not...
Governorate, Iraq. The name Nimrud was recorded as the local name by CarstenNiebuhr in the mid-18th century. In the mid 19th century, biblical archaeologists...
Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, c.1800–1550 BC, CarstenNiebuhr Institute Publications, vol. 20. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press...
Demographic Yearbook – 2018, United Nations Published in 18th-19th centuries CarstenNiebuhr (1792). "Of the Province of Oman". Travels through Arabia. Translated...
Hansen, detailing a disastrous scientific expedition to the area led by CarstenNiebuhr lasting from 1761 to 1767. The veracity of certain aspects of the account...
mortem auctoris edidit CarstenNiebuhr. Catalog of Fishes lists the authority as " Fabricius [J. C.] (ex Forsskål) in Niebuhr 1775" and states that the...
name include: CarstenCarsten Höller (born 1961), German artist Carsten Jancker (born 1974), German footballer and coach CarstenNiebuhr (1733–1815), German...
creating a cellar space for them. The first European visitors included CarstenNiebuhr in 1765, William Loftus in 1853, and Johann Ludwig Burckhardt in 1864...
Milli chief Timur as governor of Raqqa (1800–1803). The Danish writer CarstenNiebuhr, who traveled to Jazira in 1764, recorded five nomadic Kurdish tribes...
Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, c.1800-1550 BC, CarstenNiebuhr Institute Publications, vol. 20. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press...
Second Intermediate Period, c. 1800–1550 B.C., Museum Tusculanum Press, CarstenNiebuhr Institute Publications 20. 1997, p.185 "LacusCurtius • Manetho's History...
Lieven: Grundriss des Laufes der Sterne. Das sogenannte Nutbuch. The CarstenNiebuhr Institute of Ancient Eastern Studies, Kopenhagen 2007. Marshall Clagett...
al-Kifl's identity is disputed, he is often identified with Ezekiel. CarstenNiebuhr, in his Reisebeschreibung nach Arabian, says he visited Al Kifl in...
Forsskål. The description could have been by either Forsskål or by CarstenNiebuhr but it was compiled by the Danish naturalist Johan Christian Fabricius...
was not exclusively Baharna either. The 18th century German explorer CarstenNiebuhr visited Failaka Island in 1765 and found that a disproportionate amount...
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