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Ulrich Jasper Seetzen, occasionally also falsely Ulrich Jaspar Seetzen written (* 30 January 1767 in Sophiengroden in the rule Jever; "Â in October 1811 in close proximity to Ta'as), physician, scholar, natural scientist, traveler and German Orientalist.
Ulrich Jasper Seetzen was born in Sophiengroden in the rule Jever as a son of the bemittelten land man Ulrich Jaspers Sietzen and its wife Trienke Otten. It visited the school in Jever and went in the autumn 1785 to the George August university Goettingen, in order to study medicine. Besides it dedicated itself to the natural sciences, in which flower brook was its teacher, as well as the technology.
he attained 1789 by the thesis "Systematum de morbis plantarum brevis dijudicatio". It created the physical society" with several young people, among which also Alexander of Humboldt was.
1790 it undertook a bi-annual journey by Westphalia and West Germany, collected thereby plants and minerals and visited factories and mines. it went to 1791 to Vienna, later to and Saxonia and returned 1792 to its homeland to Jever.
he bought a wind AEG mill and a Muschelkalkbrennerei in Jever to 1794, continued to publish thereby however in zoo-logical, botanischen and technical magazines. 1795 he was appointed the member of the nature-searching society in Berlin and Jena. Later he works on the goods of the realm count von cathedral in east and west Prussia.
On 13 June 1802 it applied the Near East to a journey into, which led it across Konstantinopel, Syria and Palestine to Cairo, where he two years stayed and a rich collection of handwriting, and material assets brought together, which it brought after Gotha.
1809 it visited Mekka and Medina, in March 1810 Yemen, from there Aden and Mokka and died in October 1811 on the way after Sana.
Lively by the messages of journeys of its former study colleagues Alexander from Humboldt to South America and Friedrich horn man to Africa Seetzen decides to undertake 1802 own Forschungsreisen in the front Orient to Arabia and Africa. In addition, but Seetzen uses own fortune, receives promotions by the national princess from notion Zerbst and the duke of Gotha. It arrives after Aleppo, where it learns Arab.
Disguised as pilgrims he comes to Cairo and Mekka and can make an exact plan of the Kaaba there to 1809. Its medical knowledge, the control of the Arabic language and the observance of the requirements of the Koran provided the admission to the Arab world for it. He collected art articles, like plastics and mummies, as well as numerous writings, which he sent to his promoter the duke of Gotha. Much of it is this very day in the research library Gotha received.
Seetzen died at the end of of 1811 in Arabia under unsettled circumstances. Seetzens of diaries and its Vokabellisten of the Arabic language are this very day important source of the Arabistik. It belongs thereby to the most important German Orientalisten. Its diary publication Kruse and butcher (Berlin 1854-59, 4 Bde.) with comment.
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