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Adriaan Reland

Dutch scholar

Born on: July 17, 1676
Died on: February 5, 1718
Aged: 41 years 203 days (498 months)
Birth Sign: Cancer

 

Adriaan Reland

Adriaan Reland was a Dutch Orientalist scholar, cartographer and philologist. Even though he never left the Netherlands, he made significant contributions to Middle Eastern and Asian linguistics and cartography, including Persia, Japan and Palestine during the biblical ages.


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