Caspar Schmalkalden was a German traveler who journeyed through South America and Asia as a soldier in Dutch service.
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A West Indian raven, Brazilian Tracaca (Araraura)
Tapuya woman
Sign at Cap de Bona Esperanca
Tabula or Charten Ost-Indiens - Map of Southeast Asia with Caspar Schmalkalden's travel routes
'A Sineesischer Kaufmann' (Chinese merchant)
Insula Formosa (Taiwan)
'The Fortress of Selandia on Teowan' during the siege by Koxinga. From: Albrecht Herport: Eine kurtze Ost-Indianische Reiß-Beschreibung (1669)
'A Japanese man'Artists born in the 1610s 6
About this person
Caspar Schmalkalden was a German traveler who journeyed through South America and Asia as a soldier in Dutch service. After returning in 1652, Schmalkalden wrote a travelogue comprising nearly 500 handwritten pages, recording geographical, ethnological, and biological observations of the flora and fauna of the regions he visited. Although the exact background of his travels remains unknown, Schmalkalden's report is one of several similar 17th-century travelogues. While it revealed no new discoveries from a European perspective, his notes remain a valuable addition to contemporary historical sources.
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