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Traveller / antiquarian

Michael Eneman

1676–1714 · Sweden

Swedish traveller.

Life and work

  1. 1711–1713
    Travelled at the Swedish king's expense through Asia Minor, Egypt, Sinai, Palestine, Syria and Cyprus.

    Åström 1997

  2. 4 February 1713
    Reached Larnaca ('Lernica') from Tripoli by English ship after a storm-delayed crossing (left Tripoli 28 January, turned back, re-embarked 31 January).

    LarnacaÅström 1997

  3. 1 March 1713
    Left Cyprus on a French ship; reached Smyrna on 24 March. His diary of Cyprus records trade, the harbour at Larnaca, the European community and a local uprising incident; Åström found it of little interest to epigraphists and archaeologists.

    LarnacaÅström 1997

  4. 1889
    K. U. Nylander published his diary as Resa i Orienten 1711-1712 (Uppsala), with only a brief summary of the Cyprus part; manuscript in the National Archives, Stockholm.

    UppsalaÅström 1997

  5. 1997
    Åström drew attention to the Cyprus section of the diary, which Cobham's Excerpta Cypria and the Cobham and Kyriazes bibliographies had not recorded.

    Åström 1997

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Sources

  1. 1.P. Åström (1997). “Michael Eneman's Visit to Cyprus in 1713”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 27. Online