Ulrich Jasper Seetzen and the cartography of the Orient

The evening's speaker, Dr Petra Weigel, is head of the Gotha Perthes Collection at the Gotha Research Library. Her lecture will focus on Ulrich Jasper Seetzen's cartographic work, which has hardly been recognised to date, especially his most significant achievement – the mapping of the Holy Land and the Dead Sea, which he was the first European to circumnavigate and explore. However, this pioneering achievement was hardly recognised because Seetzen's maps and travelogues only came to the attention of researchers 40 years after his death in Yemen in 1811.

All interested parties are cordially invited, admission is free. Afterwards, the Friends of the Gotha Research Library invite you to a small reception.

picture credits: Ulrich Jasper Seetzen/Bernhard von Lindenau, Charte von Palaestina, Gotha 1810, SPK 3030.2 A2 (3), Gotha Research Library