Traveller / antiquarian
Christian Fürer von Haimendorff
fl. 1566–1621 · Germany
German traveller, active 1566–1621.
Life and work
- 1566German traveller who stayed at Nea Paphos; Maier and Karageorghis quote his remark that Ktima, a mile away, was 'more jolly and fertile and safer from Turks and pirates than Paphos'.
Nea PaphosMaier & Karageorghis 1984, p. 302
- 1566–1621Writing that Paphos had a beautiful palace on the hill is interpreted by J. Mlynarczyk as the late-antique House of Aion near the port and by G. Vörös as temple columns on Fanari Hill (Papuci-Wladyka 2020, Miszk ch. 2.2).
Nea PaphosPapuci-Władyka 2020, p. 119
- 1621His Itinerarium Aegypti appeared in Nuremberg in 1621 (Latin); a fuller German version, Reisebeschreibung, appeared at Nuremberg in 1646 (Cobham).
NurembergCobham 1908, no page markersMaier & Karageorghis 1984, nn. 8
Sources
- 1.E. Papuci-Władyka (ed.) (2020). Interdisciplinary Research of the Jagiellonian University in Nea Paphos UNESCO World Heritage Site (2011-2015): First Results.
- 2.F. G. Maier, V. Karageorghis (1984). Paphos: History and Archaeology. 383 pp.. Nicosia, A. G. Leventis Foundation.
- 3.C. D. Cobham (1908). Excerpta Cypria: Materials for a History of Cyprus. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Online
- 4.Chr. Furer von Haimendorf (1621). Itinerarium Aegypti, Arabiae, Palaestinae, Syriae, aliarumque regionum orientalium. Nuremberg.