Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784-1817) was a Swiss-born, British-sponsored explorer of the Near East and Africa who anticipated the great explorers of the 19th century. Johann Ludwig Burckhardt was born in Lausanne and grew up in his ancestral city,...
1784-1817 Swiss Explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt was the first European in modern times to visit the ancient city of Petra in what is now Jordan, and the great temples of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II at Abu Simbel. Burckhardt was born in...
The legacy of Johann Ludwig Krapf, first Protestant missionary to East Africa, has long been a matter of discussion [1] His first posting was to Ethiopia, but the mission was forced to leave before it was properly established. In Mombasa and its hinterland...
JOHANN LUDWIG KREBS: SÃ"MTLICHE ORGELWERKE, Vol. 6. Beatrice-Maria Weinberger, organist. ???/T3 organ of the Abbey of Weissenau, Upper Swabia, Germany; Johann Nepomuk Holzhey (1784-87); restored by Hubert Sandtner (Dillingen, 1987-89). Motette CD 12761 (available from Albany Music Distributors). The sixth volume of the complete...
