Carsten Niebuhr
1733–1815
German cartographer to a Danish expedition to Arabia, 1761–7. Travelled through Persia, Palestine, and Constantinople on his return, making geographical observations and exact copies of cuneiform transcriptions at Persepolis.
Source
DSB.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
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