Adriaan Reland was a Dutch Orientalist scholar, cartographer and philologist. Even though he never left the Netherlands, he made significant contributions to Middle Eastern and Asian linguistics and cartography, including Persia, Japan and Palestine during the biblical ages.
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Manuscript of Reland's work on the foundations of the Persian language (Prima elementa linguae persicae nitidissime conscriptae Adriani Relandi). Printed in Utrecht, dated 1705
"Nova Imperii Persici deliniatio", a map of the Persian Empire based on the geographical research of Adriaan Reland and engraved by Matthaeus Seutter, Augsburg, c. 1727.
Frontispiece of Adriaan Reland's Palaestina ex monumentis veteribus illustrata
Image from critique of Hadriani Relandi de spoliis templi Hierosolymitani published in Acta Eruditorum, 1717
Image from critique of Hadriani Relandi de spoliis templi Hierosolymitani published in Acta Eruditorum, 1717
Writers born in the 1670s 6
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Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1676 to 1718 · aged 41
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