Eberhard Isbrand Ides
Eberhard Isbrand Ides or Evert Ysbrants (Ysbrandszoon) Ides (1657–1708) was a Holstein merchant, traveller and diplomat.[1]
Biography
Evert IJsbrandsz Ides came from Holstein-Glückstadt and had Dutch descend. By 1687, he settled in the German Quarter (Nemetskaya sloboda) of Moscow. In 1692 he travelled as a Russian envoy to the Kangxi Emperor of China, accompanied by nine Russians and twelve Germans. He made use of a map presented by Nicolaas Witsen.[2] While there he was to negotiate trade relations between the two countries. He returned to Russia in 1694 and seems to have been sent to Voronezh to assist with the development of a Russian Navy. In 1698 he founded an arms and powder factory near Moscow. In 1700 he became a commissioner of the Admiralty in Arkhangelsk and in 1704 administrator of export tariffs for Arkhangelsk.[3]
Driejaarige reize naar China, te lande gedaan door den Moskovischen afgezant, E. Ysbrants Ides, van Moskou af, over Groot Ustiga, Siriania, Permia, Sibirien, Daour, Groot Tartaryen tot in China. Waar in ... de zeden dier woeste volken, ten aanzien van hunnen godtsdienst, regeeringen, huwelyken, dagelykschen handel, kleedinge, woningen, onderhoud, dood en begraafnissen naaukeuriglyk beschreven worden. Met eene landkaart ... en met veele schoone printverbeeldingen versiert. Hier is bygevoegt, eene beknopte beschryvinge van China, door eenen Chineeschen schryver t'zamengestelt, nu eerst in 't Neêrduitsch vertaalt, en met verscheide aantekeningen verrykt.
Ides was one of the first early Europeans to describe the Gobi Desert. In 1697, Dreijährige Reise Nach China, a German language description of the trip was published by Adam Brandt, his former secretary, with descriptions of Siberia and Northern China. In 1701 Ides decided to publish a map of his travels because of the competition.[4] In 1704 his richly decorated Driejaarige Reize naar China, te lande gedaan door de Moscovischen afgezant E. Ysbrants Ides was published in Dutch; two years later in English. His account appeared in French translation, along with a work by another Dutch traveller Cornelis de Bruijn (1652–1727) in Voyage de Corneille Le Brun par la Moscovie, en Persia, et aux Indes Orientales (6 parts in 2 volumes), published in Amsterdam in 1718.[5]
References
- ^ Nolte, Hans-Heinrich. "Ides, Eberhard Isbrand". Deutsche Biographie. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
- ^ Marion Peters, De wijze koopman. Het wereldwijde onderzoek van Nicolaes Witsen (1641–1717), burgemeester en VOC-bewindhebber van Amsterdam (Amsterdam 2010), p. 179
- ^ "Ides, Evert Ysbrants". Ides, Eberhard Isbrand. Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie. Duncker & Humblot. 1881. p. 747. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
- ^ Marion Peters, De wijze koopman. Het wereldwijde onderzoek van Nicolaes Witsen (1641–1717), burgemeester en VOC-bewindhebber van Amsterdam (Amsterdam 2010), p. 118-122 [Transl.: "Mercator Sapiens. The Worldwide Investigations of Nicolaes Witsen, Amsterdam Mayor and Boardmember of the East India Company"]
- ^ "Ides, Eberhard Isbrand". Deutsche Biographie. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
External links
- Works about Evert Ysbrants Ides WorldCat
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