General history of travel by sea and by land

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General history of journeys by sea and land or with a more complete title General history of journeys by sea and land; or collection of all travelogues, which were published in different languages ​​by all peoples up to itzo, and make a complete conception of the modern description of the earth and history: in which the real state of all nations is presented, and the strangest, most useful and most truthful in Europe, Asia, Africa and America, ... is included; Provided with necessary maps ... and some illustrations ... / Compiled by a group of learned men in English, and from the same and French into German. trans. is one of the most extensive and most important German-language collections of travelogues of the 18th century , translated by Johann Joachim Schwabe (1714–1784) and published in 21 volumes in Leipzig by Arkstee and Merkus from 1747 to 1774. The collection was based on the English New general collection of voyages and travels (4 volumes, 1745–1747) and the French Histoire générale des voyages (20 volumes, 1746–1791), “but complements those of the English and French editors Thomas Astley and Antoine-François Prévost selected works and translated them more faithfully than the French edition. ”Abbé Prevost had worked on it from 1746 to 1759 (volume 15). Immanuel Kant drew a lot of ethnographic knowledge from him.

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References and footnotes

  1. Griep / Luber 17
  2. http://stichbeispiel.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/p_stichhaben/Artikel/Nummer06/Nr6_Smidt.pdf Wolbert GC Smidt : The philosophical category of the ridiculous and the condemnation of Africans by Kant. In: Samples. Viennese magazine for critical African studies No. 6/2004, 4th vol.

literature

  • Wolfgang Griep, Susanne Luber (ed.): Travel literature and geography in the Eutin regional library. Heide, Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyens & Co., 1990

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