Bruce, James, 1730-1794
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Name (Hebrew)
ברוס, ג'יימס, 1730-1794
Name (Latin)
Bruce, James, 1730-1794
Date of birth
1730-12-14
Date of death
1794-04-26
Associated country
Ethiopia
Great Britain
Sudan
Field of activity
Discoveries in geography
Occupation
Explorers
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
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JamesBruce
Samuel Freeman
/ David Martin
, Public domain
File:Ethiopia and the Source of the Nile map by James Bruce 1790.jpg
James Bruce, Public domain
File:James Bruce.jpg
Pompeo Batoni
, Public domain
File:The Tribuna of the Uffizi (1772-78); Zoffany, Johann.jpg
Johann Zoffany
, Public domain
Wikipedia description:
James Bruce of Kinnaird (14 December 1730 – 27 April 1794) was a Scottish traveller and travel writer who physically confirmed the source of the Blue Nile. He spent more than a dozen years in North and East Africa and in 1770 became the first European to trace and document the course of the Nile by following it upstream from Egypt through Sudan to its origins in the Blue Nile in Ethiopia.
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