Adam Olearius's ‘About the Greenlanders’
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9220952 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Z Scheffel (Camosun College, corresponding author), David Scheffel |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 147 |
| Pages | 701-711 |
| Publication date | 1987-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Polar Record (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-2474 • E-ISSN: 1475-3057 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0032247400008408 |
| OpenAlex | W2043499257 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 2 |
The 17th-century German traveller and writer Adam Olearius is best known for his account of travels in Russia and Persia, first published in 1656. Parts of this work have been translated into English under the title ‘The travels of Olearius in seventeenth-century Russia’. Among hitherto untranslated sections is the chapter ‘Von den Grünländern’, an early and well-researched account of Greenland and its inhabitants, prompted by his examination of a party of three Greenlanders in Gottorp, Schleswig, in 1656. This article is a translation of the chapter, with an introduction to Olearius and his background
Archaeology · German · Classics · Historical Influence and Diplomacy · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 1987 - 2020 (34) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |