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See also:OELSCHLAGER [OLEARIUS], See also:ADAM (1600-1671) , See also:German traveller and Orientalist, was See also:born at See also:Aschersleben, near See also:Magdeburg, in 1599 or 1600. After studying at See also:Leipzig he became librarian and See also:court mathematician to See also:Duke See also:Frederick III. of See also:Holstein-Gottorp, and in 1633 he was appointed secretary to the ambassadors See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip See also:Crusius, jurisconsult, and See also:Otto Bruggemann or Brugman, See also:merchant, sent by the duke to Muscovy and See also:Persia in the See also:hope of making arrangements by which his newly-founded See also:city of Friedrichstadt should become the See also:terminus of an overland See also:silk-See also:trade. This See also:embassy started from Gottorp on the 22nd of See also:October 1633, and travelled by See also:Hamburg, See also:Lubeck, See also:Riga, Dorpat (five months' stay), Revel, See also:Narva, See also:Ladoga and See also:Novgorod to See also:Moscow (See also:August 14, 1634). Here they concluded an advantageous treaty with See also:Michael See also:Romanov, and returned forthwith to Gottorp (See also:December 14, 1634–See also:April 7, 1635) to procure the ratification of this arrangement from the duke, before proceeding to Persia. This accomplished, they started afresh from Hamburg on the 22nd of October 1635, arrived at Moscow on the 29th of See also:March 1636; and See also:left Moscow on the 3oth of See also:June for Nizhniy Novgorod, whither they had already sent agents (in 1634–1635) to prepare a See also:vessel for their descent of the See also:Volga. Their voyage down the See also:great See also:river and over the See also:Caspian was slow and hindered by accidents, especially by grounding, as near See also:Derbent on the 14th of See also:November 1636; but at last, by way of See also:Shemakha (three months' delay here), See also:Ardebil, Sultanieh and Kasvin, they reached the See also:Persian court at See also:Isfahan (August 3, 1637), and were received by the shah (August 16). Negotiations here were not as successful as at Moscow, and the embassy left Isfahan on the 21st of December 1637, and returned See also:home by See also:Resht, See also:Lenkoran, See also:Astrakhan, Kazan, Moscow, &c. At Revel Oelschlager parted from his colleagues (April 15, 1639) and embarked See also:direct for Lubeck. On his way he had made a See also:chart of the Volga, and partly for this See also:reason the See also:tsar Michael wished to persuade, or compel, him to enter his service. Once back at Gottorp, Oelschlager became librarian to the duke, who also made him keeper of his See also:Cabinet of Curiosities, and induced the tsar to excuse his (promised) return to Moscow. Under his care the Gottorp library and cabinet were greatly enriched in See also:MSS., books, and See also:oriental and other See also:works of See also:art: in 1651 he See also:purchased, for this purpose, the collection of the Dutch See also:scholar and physician, See also:Bernard ten Broecke (" Paludanus" ). He died at Gottorp on the 22nd of See also:February 1671.
It is by his admirable narrative of the See also:Russian and the Persian See also:legation (Beschreibung der muscowitischen and persischen Reise, See also:Schleswig, 1647, and afterwards in several enlarged See also:editions, 1656, &c.) that Oelschlager is best known, though he also published a See also:history of Holstein (Kurtzer Begriff einer holsteinischen Chronic, Schleswig, 1663), a famous See also:catalogue of the Holstein-Gottorp cabinet (1666), and a See also:translation of the Gulistan (Persianisches See also:Rosenthal, Schleswig, 1654), to which was appended a translation of the fables of Lokinan. A See also:French version of the Beschreibung was published by See also:Abraham de Wicquefort (Voyages en Moscovie, Tartarie et Perse, See also:par Adam Olearius, See also:Paris, 1656), an See also:English version was made by See also:John See also:Davies of See also:Kidwelly (Travels of the Ambassadors sent by See also:Frederic, Duke of Holstein, to the Great Duke of Muscovy and the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King of Persia, See also:London, 1662; 2nd ed., 1669), and a Dutch translation by Dieterius See also:van Wageningen (Beschrijvingh van de nieuwe Parciaensche ofte Orientaelsche Reyse, See also:Utrecht, 1651) ; an See also:Italian translation of the Russian sections also appeared (Viaggi di Moscovia, See also:Viterbo and See also:Rome, 1658). See also:Paul Flemming the poet and J. A. de Mandelslo, whose travels to the See also:East Indies are usually published with those of Oelschlager, accompanied the embassy. Under Oelschlager's direction the celebrated globe of Gottorp (II ft. in See also:diameter) and armillary See also:sphere were executed in 1654—1664; the globe was given to See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter the Great of See also:Russia in 1713 by Duke Frederick's See also:grandson, See also:Christian See also:Augustus. Oelschlager's unpublished works include a See also:Lexicon Persicum and several other Persian studies. (C. R.
End of Article: OELSCHLAGER [OLEARIUS], ADAM (1600-1671)
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