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          Geographia Generalis is a seminal work in the field of geography authored by Bernhardus Varenius, first published in!

          Varenius, Bernhardus (Bernhard Varen)

          (b. Hitzacker, in the district of Hannover, Germany, 1622: d.

          His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in ).

        1. The German geographer Bernhardus Varenius () originally studied mathematics and medicine at Königsburg.
        2. Geographia Generalis is a seminal work in the field of geography authored by Bernhardus Varenius, first published in
        3. Bernhard Varenius was born in Hannover, Germany in and died at age 28 in Amsterdam in or To. Varenius, geography was a field of mixed (or.
        4. [2] Encyclopedia Britannica.

          5. Amsterdam, Holland, 1650)

          physical geography.

          Son of the court preacher to the duke of Brunswick, Varenius spent his early years at Uelzen, the home of the duke. From 1640 to 1642 he studied in the Gymnasium of Hamburg, and from there he went to the universities at Königsberg (1643–1645) and Leiden (1645–1649), devoting himself to mathematics, medicine, and natural history.

          He took his medical degree at Leiden in 1649, and settled in Amsterdam with the intention of practicing medicine.

          From some remarks in his writing it is evident that Varenius felt he had little future in Hannover, which had been devastated by the Thirty Years’ War.

          In Amsterdam the recent discoveries of Abel Tasman, Willem Schouten, and other Dutch navigators, and his friendship with Willem Blaeu as well as other geographers led him to concentrate on geography rather than medicine, much to his own econom