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2 unusual facts about Joseph Tiefenthaler


Joseph Tiefenthaler

Tiefenthaler sent these works in manuscript partly to the Danish scholar Dr. Kratzenstein in Copenhagen, partly to the French orientalist and geographer A. H. Anquetil-Duperron (1731–1805).

Shahabad, Hardoi

Joseph Tiefenthaler, one of the earliest European geographers to write on India, visited the town in 1770 and described it as a town of considerable circuit, with a palace of bricks in the middle strengthened by towers like a fortress, with a vestibule and a covered colonnade.



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