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See also:SEETZEN, See also:ULRICH See also:JASPER (1767-1811) , See also:German explorer of See also:Arabia and See also:Palestine, was See also:born, the son of a See also:yeoman, in the little lordship of See also:Jever in German Frisia on the 30th of See also:January 17(7. His See also:father, who was a See also:man of substance, sent him to the university of See also:Gottingen, where he graduated in See also:medicine. His See also:chief interests, however, were in natural See also:history and technology; he wrote papers on both these subjects which gained him some reputation, and had both in view in making a See also:series of journeys through See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland and See also:Germany. He also engaged in various small manufactures, and in 18o2 obtained a See also:government See also:post in Jever. In 18or, however, the See also:interest which he had See also:long See also:felt in See also:geographical exploration culminated in a See also:resolution to travel. In the summer of 1802 he started down the See also:Danube with a See also:companion See also:Jacobsen, who See also:broke down at See also:Smyrna a See also:year later. His See also:journey was by See also:Constantinople, where he stayed six months, thence through See also:Asia See also:Minor to Smyrna, then again through the See also:heart of Asia Minor to See also:Aleppo, where he remained from See also:November 1803 to See also:April 1805, and made himself sufficiently at See also:home with Arabic speech and ways to travel as a native. Now began the See also:part of his travels of which a full See also:journal has been published (April 18os to See also:March 1809), a series of most instructive journeys in eastern and western Palestine and the See also:wilderness of See also:Sinai, and so on to See also:Cairo and the See also:Fayum. His chief exploit was a tour See also:round the Dead See also:Sea, which he made without a companion and in the disguise of a See also:beggar. From See also:Egypt he went by sea to See also:Jidda and reached See also:Mecca as a See also:pilgrim in See also:October 1809. In Arabia he made extensive journeys, ranging from See also:Medina to Lahak and returning to Mocha, from which See also:place his last letters to See also:Europe were written in November 181o. In See also:September of the following year he See also:left Mocha with the See also:hope of reaching See also:Muscat, and was found dead two days later, having, it is believed, been poisoned by the command of the See also:imam of See also:Sana.
For the parts of Seetzen's journeys not covered by the published journal (Reisen, ed. Kruse, 4 vols., See also:Berlin, 1854), the only printed records are a series of letters and papers in See also:Zach's Monatliche Correspondenz and See also:Hammer's Fundgruben. Many papers and collections were lost through his See also:death or never reached Europe. The collections that were saved See also:form the See also:Oriental museum and the chief part of the Oriental See also:MSS. of the ducal library in See also:Gotha.
End of Article: SEETZEN, ULRICH JASPER (1767-1811)
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