Adam Brand

Adam Brand (* before 1692 in Lübeck ; † 1746 ) was a German businessman and explorer .

Life

Brand made several trade trips to Moscow . In 1692 he traveled to China from Moscow with Eberhard Isbrand Ides and others . This trip served both commercial purposes and as a political delegation. In 1697 he was appointed Prussian Court and Commerce Councilor. Brand was planned as the Prussian envoy to Persia , but the trip was not carried out after the death of King Frederick I in 1713. He then lived in Königsberg . His description of the Chinese journey first appeared in Frankfurt in 1697, saw several editions and was translated into Dutch, French and English.

Works

• Adam Brand's newly enlarged description of his great Chinese journey, which he made in 1692 from Moscow via Greater Ustiga, Siberia, Dauren and through the great Tartarey to Chinam and from there back to Moscow within three years: including a preface by Paul Jacob Marperger's travels in general, but especially the oriental ones, and what good of both the Europeans as Asian peoples can expect from them. Lübeck: Boeckmann 1734 ( digitized version )
• Description of the three-year Chinese journey: the Russian embassy from Moscow to Beijing 1692 to 1695 in the depictions of Eberhard Isbrand Ides and Adam Brand. Ed., Introduced and commented by Michael Hundt. Stuttgart: Steiner 1999 (Sources and Studies on the History of Eastern Europe; Vol. 53) ISBN 3-515-07396-5

literature

• Michael Hundt: Brand, Adam in: Biographisches Lexikon für Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck, Volume 11, Neumünster 2000, pp. 50–52 ISBN 3-529-02640-2 , corrected ISBN 3-529-02640-9
• Löwenberg:  Brand, Adam . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 236.

Web links

• Literature by and about Adam Brand in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by and about Adam Brand im VD 17 .