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Johan Nieuhof

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Gender Male
Death351 years ago
Date of birth July 22,1618
Zodiac sign Cancer
Born Uelsen
Germany
Date of died October 8,1672
DiedMadagascar
Job Anthropologist
Explorer
Linguist
BooksAn embassy from the East-India Company
Voyages & Travels to the East Indies 1653-1670
Voyages Into Brazil and the East Indies. Description of Brazil, and Other Parts of East Indies, and North Europe (See Churchill Collection Vol. 2)
An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China: Delivered by Their Excellcies Peter de Goyer, and Jacob de Keyzer at His Imperial City of Peking : Wherein the Cities, Towns, Villages, Ports, Rivers, &c. in Their Passages from Canton to Peking are Ingeniously Described
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Johan Nieuhof Life story


Johan Nieuhof was a Dutch traveler who wrote about his journeys to Brazil, China and India. The most famous of these was a trip of 2,400 km from Canton to Peking in 1655-1657, which enabled him to become an authoritative Western writer on China.

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