Martin Dobrizhoffer (7 September 1717 – 17 July 1791) was an Austrian Roman Catholic missionary and writer. Dobrizhoffer was born in Frymburk (Friedberg)...
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folklore and numerous myths. According to the Jesuit missionary Martin Dobrizhoffer, they practiced cannibalism at one point, perhaps as a funerary ritual...
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1750 Jesuit missions had been established among them (chiefly by Martin Dobrizhoffer, who had been a missionary in Paraguay for eighteen years), and they...
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volumes of Martin Dobrizhoffer, undertaken in connection with Southey's Tale of Paraguay, which had been suggested to him by Dobrizhoffer's volumes; and...
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vessel has been compared to the gigantic water-lily of the Amazon. Martin Dobrizhoffer, a Jesuit missionary in Paraguay, recorded that the four sides were...
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9 – Jacques-Nicolas Tardieu, French engraver (b. 1716) July 17 – Martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian Jesuit missionary (b. 1717) July 25 – Isaac Low, American...
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inhabited by the Abipones people according to accounts from Jesuit Martin Dobrizhoffer. On November 22, 1872, the Governor Simón de Iriondo by Decree No...
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Agui, Chinese nobleman, general for the Ch'ing dynasty (d. 1797) Martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian Jesuit missionary (d. 1791) September 22 – Pehr Wilhelm...
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Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher (b. 1723) 1791 – Martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian missionary and author (b. 1717) 1793 – Charlotte Corday...
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frequently used to visit Frymburk because of his lover Fanny Greipl. Martin Dobrizhoffer (1717–1791), Austrian missionary and writer Simon Sechter (1788–1867)...
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