• Johann Michael Vansleb (1 November 1635 – 1679) was a German theologian, linguist and Egypt traveller. He converted to Catholicism and was a member of...
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    (Relations de divers voyages curieux, 1670s–1696 editions) and Johann Michael Vansleb (The Present State of Egypt, 1678). The first drawing of Karnak...
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    ISBN 978-90-04-42215-5. Vansleb, Johann Michael (1677). Nouvelle relation en forme de journal d'un voyage fait en Égypte par le P. Vansleb,... en 1672 et 1673...
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    contemporaries, including Baltazar Téllez, Athanasius Kircher and Johann Michael Vansleb. Europeans had been resident in Ethiopia since the late 15th century...
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    Examples included Johannes Helferich (1579), George Sandys (1615), Johann Michael Vansleb (1677), Benoît de Maillet (1735) and Elliot Warburton (1844). Most...
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    kings probably serving as its patrons. Coptic documents observed by Johann Michael Vansleb during the later 17th century list the following bishoprics in the...
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    Rans(t) (1607–1660) (d. 1714) November 1 – Johann Michael Vansleb, German theologian (d. 1679) November 3 – Johann Sturm, German philosopher (d. 1703) November...
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    and only the church remained in use. The monastery was visited by Johann Michael Vansleb in 1672 and by Richard Pococke in 1737. Both of them made an incorrect...
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  • orientalist Johann Michael Vansleb (1635–1679), theologian Maria Elisabeth Lämmerhirt (1644–1694), mother of Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Aegidius Bach...
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  • it was purchased in 1674 in Ottoman Egypt for three piastres by Johann Michael Vansleb. The manuscript is now in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, ms...
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