Martin Dobrizhoffer (7 September 1717 – 17 July 1791) was an Austrian Roman Catholic missionary and writer. Dobrizhoffer was born in Frymburk (Friedberg)...

folklore and numerous myths. According to the Jesuit missionary Martin Dobrizhoffer, they practiced cannibalism at one point, perhaps as a funerary ritual...

1750 Jesuit missions had been established among them (chiefly by Martin Dobrizhoffer, who had been a missionary in Paraguay for eighteen years), and they...

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...

volumes of Martin Dobrizhoffer, undertaken in connection with Southey's Tale of Paraguay, which had been suggested to him by Dobrizhoffer's volumes; and...

9 – Jacques-Nicolas Tardieu, French engraver (b. 1716) July 17 – Martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian Jesuit missionary (b. 1717) July 25 – Isaac Low, American...

inhabited by the Abipones people according to accounts from Jesuit Martin Dobrizhoffer. On November 22, 1872, the Governor Simón de Iriondo by Decree No...

Agui, Chinese nobleman, general for the Ch'ing dynasty (d. 1797) Martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian Jesuit missionary (d. 1791) September 22 – Pehr Wilhelm...

Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher (b. 1723) 1791 – Martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian missionary and author (b. 1717) 1793 – Charlotte Corday...

frequently used to visit Frymburk because of his lover Fanny Greipl. Martin Dobrizhoffer (1717–1791), Austrian missionary and writer Simon Sechter (1788–1867)...