Engelbert Kämpfer (Dictionary of World Biography: The 17th and 18th Centuries)
Early Life
Born the son of Johannes Kämpfer, a teacher and minister, Engelbert Kämpfer was provided ample opportunity to study. As a youth, Kämpfer studied the sciences and the humanities at a number of Swedish, Polish, German, and Dutch schools and universities. Enrolled at Danzig in 1672, he wrote a thesis on the politics of monarchy; the following year, he earned a degree in philosophy from Kraków. He then studied medicine and natural history at Königsberg. While his early education included the study of medicine, he did not take a formal medical degree until some...
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