Sven Hedin
Explorer, Author
1865 – 1952
Who was Sven Hedin?
Sven Anders Hedin KNO1kl RVO was a Swedish geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer, travel writer, and illustrator of his own works. During four expeditions to Central Asia, he discovered the Transhimalaya and the sources of the Brahmaputra, Indus and Sutlej Rivers, Lake Lop Nur, and the remains of cities, grave sites and the Great Wall of China in the deserts of the Tarim Basin. In his book Från Pol till Pol, Hedin describes a journey through Asia and Europe between the late 1880s and early 1900s. While traveling, Hedin visited Constantinople, oil-rich Azerbaijan in times of the Nobel Brothers, Teheran, Mesopotamia, lands of the Kyrgyz people, India, China, Asiatic Russia and Japan. The posthumous publication of his Central Asia Atlas marked the conclusion of his life’s work.
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- Born
- Feb 19, 1865
Stockholm - Also known as
- Sven Anders Hedin
- Nationality
- Sweden
- Profession
- Education
- Uppsala University
- Stockholm University
- Humboldt University of Berlin
- Died
- Nov 26, 1952
Stockholm - Resting place
- Adolf Fredrik Church
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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