Undying Curiosity: Carsten Niebuhr and the Royal Danish Expedition to Arabia (1761-1767)

by Lawrence J. Baack

In 1801, the nominations to the French Institut des sciences et des arts, the former French Academy, included Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottfried Herder, Thomas Jefferson, Friedrich Klopstock, Arthur Young, Joseph Priestly and Carsten Niebuhr. The first six are seminal figures of the 18th Century, but who was Carsten Niebuhr and why was he considered worthy of membership in Europe's most prestigious society? The answer is that it was Niebuhr who...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3515107681
• ISBN13: 9783515107686
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH
• Length: 443 Pages
• Weight: 1.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.0" x 9.6"