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Last Name Nieuhof

Given Name Joan

alt. Names J. N. ; Johan Nieuhof / Joan Nieuhoff ;

Marriage

Children

Year born 1618 in Uelsen, Lower Saxony

Year died 1672

Place of death 1672 in Madagascar

Father's occupation mayor of the town of Uelsen, N. N. (1590 c. -1618 after)

Relatives at least two brothers and a married sister

Education

Country of Activity Netherlands

Worked for Dutch East India Company ("VOC") ; Het gezandtschap der Neêrlandtsche Oost-Indische Compagnie, aan den grooten Tartarischen Cham, den tegenwoordigen keizer van China (many editions and translations) ;

Patronage Cornelis Jansz. Witsen (1605-1669) ;

Collaborators publisher Jacob van Meurs (1619-1680) ;

Techniques naural, landscape, architectural, mammal, ornithological, herpetological, marine, ichthyological, and botanical drawing ;

Sample(s) https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/20937/dissertation.pdf?sequence=5 ;

Archival sources https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Nieuhof ;

Published sources Sun, Jin: The illusion of verisimilitude. Johan Nieuhof’s images of China (Ph. D. theses, Leiden University, 2013) ; Blussé, L. & R. Falkenburg: Johan Nieuwhofs beelden van een Chinareis, 1655-1657 (Middelburg 1987) ; Ulrichs, Friederike: Johan Nieuhofs Blick auf China (1655-1657). Die Kupferstiche in seinem Chinabuch und ihre Wirkung auf den Verleger Jacob van Meurs. (Sinologica Coloniensia 21) (Wiesbaden 2003) ;

other Further Places of Activity: Germany, Brazil, China, India, and Madagascar.

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