biography
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Beke, Charles Tilstone
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| male
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| lived:
| (1800–74)
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| biography:
| Explorer and biblical critic, born in London, UK. A scholar of ancient history, philology, and ethnography, he wrote Origines Biblicae, or Researches in Primeval History (1834). He explored Abyssinia (1840–3), where he studied the course of the Blue Nile, mapped 70 000 sq mi, and collected 14 vocabularies. In 1874 he explored the region at the head of the Red Sea in search of Mt Sinai. |
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