Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan
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Guillaume Levasseur de Beauplan (c. 1600 – 6 December 1673) or William le Vasseur de Beauplan was a French-Polish
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Beauplan served as
In 1639, Beauplan created the first "descriptive"
Dnieper River in 1662.[2]
He wrote Description des contrés du Royaume de Pologne, which was published in 1651.[1] It was renamed Description d'Ukranie, when the second edition was released in 1651. Two more editions were published in 1660 and 1861. The book was the first book published that provided a geographical, economic, and demographic description of Ukraine. By 1832, it had been translated into five languages. It remains in print today.[2] In the book, Ukraine was described as a territory between Muscovy and Transylvania.
Publications
- Beauplan, Guillaume Le Vasseur, sieur de (1861). Description de l'Vkranie depvis les confins de la Moscovie jvsqu'avx limites de la Transylvanie. Paris: J. Techner.
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References
- ^ a b c "General Depiction of the Empty Plains (in Common Parlance, the Ukraine) Together with its Neighboring Provinces". World Digital Library. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
- ^ a b c d e f Borschak, Elie. "Beauplan, Guillaume Le Vasseur de". Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
External links
Media related to Guillaume le Vasseur de Beauplan at Wikimedia Commons- Dennis F. Essar, Andrew B. Pernal: Beauplan’s Description d’Ukranie. A Bibliography of Editions and Translations. Harvard Ukrainian Studies VI, 4 (1982), S. 485–499 (PDF).
- Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan at WorldCat
- Beauplan's bio at the website of French Ambassador to Ukraine
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