Engelbert Kämpfer
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- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 17th and 18th Centuries
- Categories: Education, Literature, Publishing, Science, Medicine, Health
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Plants, Botany, Horticulture, Natural History
- Curriculum: 18th Century European History, German History, 17th Century European History, Asian History
Article abstract: Based on his own travels, Kämpfer wrote detailed and highly accurate accounts of Japan and other areas of Asia, the Middle East, and Russia. In addition, he wrote on Asian natural history, diseases, and medical practices.
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...
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