Genus Seetzenia
Pictures from Observations
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For Ulrich Jasper Seetzen (Iospar Sentzen) (1767–1811), German explorer and naturalist. He obtained his doctorate in medicine and natural sciences at the University of Göttingen (1785 to 1789). From 1802–1810, he made extensive sponsored travels through Asia Minor and the Middle East. He became fluent in Arabic, often travelled disguised as a pilgrim/ beggar, and acquired art objects, mummies, eastern manuscripts, plants and minerals for his promoter, the duke of Gotha. His collections and diaries/letters recording his observations of Eastern society form an important base for Orient research. He identified the physical locations of several sites from the Judaeo-Christian Bible, and was the first European to travel completely around the Dead Sea. He died on his way to Muscat, seemingly poisoned by his guides on orders from the imam of Sana’a for reasons unknown.