1770-1846 Russian admiral and explorer who led the first Russian expedition to circumnavigate the globe. Krusenstern was accompanied by the German/Estonian naval officer Otto von Kotzebue during this journey, which took place from...

Adam Johann Ritter von (knight of) Krusenstern (born November 19, 1770 in Hagudi, close to Rapla, Estonia (then a part of the Russian Empire), died August 24, 1846 in Kiltsi, Estonia) was the Russian admiral and explorer who in 1803-1806 led the first...

Vath, Alfons Van Hee, Louis The possession of superior secular knowledge has repeatedly opened the door for the proclamation of the gospel -- one has only to think of missionary medicine or the educational enterprise. But never elsewhere has the knowledge and practice...

Edited by Roman Malek, S.V.D. Jointly published by China-Zentrum and the Monumenta Serica Institute, Sankt Augustin. Nettetal: Steyler, 1998. 2 vols. Pp. xlvi, 1,259. DM 200. These erudite volumes include the interdisciplinary essays of a May 1992 international symposium in Germany commemorating...