blumenbach's

Updated: January 8, 2026

Burckhardt was a deeply learned man. He had passed through the universities of Leipzic, and Göttingen, where he attended Blumenbach's lectures, and afterwards through Cambridge, where he studied Arabic. He started for the East in 1809.

Jules Verne - Celebrated Travels and Travellers: Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century