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Traveller / antiquarian

Edmond Paridant-Van der Cammen

fl. 1871–1878 · Belgium

Industrialist, active 1871–1878.

Life and work

  1. 1871
    In contact with Adrien Santi Mattei, Belgian consul at Larnaca, he asked the Belgian minister plenipotentiary at Constantinople to put before the Sultan a detailed memorandum proposing Belgian colonisation of Cyprus.

    Larnaca

  2. 1874
    Published Étude sur l'île de Chypre considérée au point de vue d'une colonisation européenne (Brussels), which treats the island's antiquities as resources alongside its mines.

    BrusselsTatton-Brown 2001, p. 25, n. 4

Connections

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Scholarship

Sources

  1. 1.E. Paridant-Van der Cammen (1874). Etude sur l'île de Chypre considérée au point de vue d'une colonisation européenne. Bruxelles.
  2. 2.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.