Talk:Engelbert Kaempfer

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I have removed the following line from the article:

"The only work Kaempfer lived to publish was Amoenitatum exoticarum politico-physico-medicarum fasciculi V. (Lemgo, 1712), a selection from his papers giving results of his invaluable observations in Georgia, Persia and Japan."

This was not his only published work. There is also:

• Exercitatio politica de Majestatis divisione in realem et personalem... (Danzig 1673)
• Disputatio Medica Inauguralis Exhibens Decadem Observationum Exoticarium (Leiden 1694)

- Andre Engels 10:59, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Taxonomy

The article makes it appear that Linnaeus derived his taxonomical system from Kaempfer, but I have never heard any indication of this. I checked the Linnaeus page and there is not even a mention of his influence. I'm going to put a "citation needed" tag on it for now. If the source can't be cited then this should be removed. 129.59.47.19 (talk) 09:27, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Portrait

The current image appears to be a monochrome version of a 20th century painting. Does anyone know its origin, and whether it looks anything like Kaempfer? Andrew Dalby 12:10, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

I also spent (too much) time looking into this. Just for future reference, this is the portait image in question. It does seem to be based on a painting done by Emil Schulz-Sorau in 1955, when he was an art teacher at the Engelbert-Kaempfer-Gymnasium school, which was renamed after Kaempfer in 1938. This portrait hangs in the school still, as seen here and on the school's website. I was unable to find any evidence of any older portrait being referenced or anything to evidence that this portrait was based on anything other than speculation. Thus I've replaced it in the infobox with this image I uploaded, which is taken from a ~1730 map of Japan which was based on Kaempfer's observations. So it was still created after his death and probably fairly speculative since he wasn't very well-known during his lifetime. But I'll take speculation from 15-ish years after death over speculation from 250-ish years after! This new image is from the same source as that used for a display about him at the Japanese museum at Dejima (6th one down) so I'll concur with their judgement and assume there just isn't anything else really available. - Hargrimm | ^Θ 22:35, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

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"Written in High-Dutch"

I ask those more acquainted with philology to determine whether this "high-dutch" is indeed Hochdeutsch or in reality the literary language of the Netherlands as defined here. The gloss in brackets saying "High German" seems to me to be misleading, as the editions I have found are in "Netherlands" Dutch, the official language of the VOC... not German, despite Kaempfer being of German stock.