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Pieter van Woensel
1747-01-01 – 1808-04-21
Life & Legacy
Pieter van Woensel (1747 in Haarlem – 1808 in The Hague) was a physician, adventurer, travel writer, navy medical officer, political cartoonist and a colourful, atheist author under the Turkish pseudonym Amurath-Effendi Hekim-Bachi (‘Chief Physician Mister Amurath’) in the satirical almanac de Lantaarn (the Lamp). Typical for Van Woensel is his love for the peculiar, dislike for the easy route, and inborn tendency towards the paradoxical.
Occupation & Career
writer, physician, geographer, medical officer, travel writer, satirist
Education
Leiden University
Legacy Highlights
Education & Institutions
Leiden University
Sources & Provenance
- Wikidata population candidate Q2306356 — wikidata View source
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