Carsten Niebuhr, or Karsten Niebuhr, was a German mathematician, cartographer, and explorer in the service of Denmark-Norway. He is renowned for his participation in the Danish Arabia expedition (1761-1767).
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Carsten Niebuhr in the attire of a distinguished Arab in Yemen, gift from al-Mahdi Abbas, Imam of Yemen
Map of Bombay prepared by Niebuhr
Map of Yemen, prepared by Niebuhr
"War Exercises of the Arabs in Yemen", original print from Niebuhr's Reisebeschreibung nach Arabien und andern umliegender Ländern, 1774-1778In their orbit 2
Academics born in the 1730s 6
About this person
Carsten Niebuhr, or Karsten Niebuhr, was a German mathematician, cartographer, and explorer in the service of Denmark-Norway. 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.
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Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1733 to 1815 · aged 82
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