!!!Tieffenthaler, Josef

b. Salurn/Salorno (South Tyrol), April 27, 1710, 
d. Lakhnau (India), July 5, 1785. Scientist, Jesuit, from 1740 
missionary in India, from 1743 rector in Agra (1747-1765 in Narwar); 
after the dissolution of the order, which was the main support of the 
mission, he engaged in geographical, astronomical, historical, 
linguistic and religious studies and investigations into some issues 
of the natural sciences and passed the results on to scholars in 
Europe. Drew up the first reliable map of the Ganges area (published 
1784). The father of modern Indian geography.

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Edition: Des Pater J. T. hist.-geograph. Beschreibung von 
Hindustan, 3 vols., 1785-1787.



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