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Georg Christoph Stirn (1616 - 1669)

Stirn was a student when he travelled to Switzerland, France, England, and Holland in 1638. Although he does not explicitly identify himself in his travel diary, at the end of his manuscript he describes himself as "preparing his disputatio inauguralis for the degree of Doctor Juris Utriusque at the University of Altorf for the following year [1641] when he will be aged 25 years" (transl. H. Hager (1887), p. 445). On the basis of this information, Dr. Neubauer identifies the traveller/author as Stirn (Athenaeum, 17 May 1884, p.632). Other Links: thesaurus.cerl.org/record/cnp00466267 - CERL Thesaurus Traveller
Visitor
 Relevant locations: Educated at University of Altorf, Germany
Residence at Nuremburg, Bavaria
Visited Oxford Anatomy School, Schools Quadrangle
Visited Windsor Castle, Windsor
 Relationships: Georg Christoph Stirn was a visitor to the collection of Oxford Anatomy School (-)
Georg Christoph Stirn was a visitor to the collection of John Tradescant, the Younger (4 Aug 1608 [bap.]-22 Apr 1662)

 Linked manuscript items: as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - "[Stirn, Travel Diary]," British Library Additional MS B 67, London
 Linked print sources: as Mentioned or referenced by - The John Tradescants: Gardeners to the Rose and Lily Queen .
as Subject of/in a document - A German at Oxford in 1640.
as Subject of/in a document - [Appendix to a review of K. H. Schaible, Geschichte der Deutschen in England. Strassburg: Trübner, 1885].
as Subject of/in a document - Francis Bacon, the State and the Reform of Natural Philosophy .
 Linked images:
Portrait of Georg Christoph Stirn

References in Documents:
[Travel Diary of Georg Christoph Stirn of Nuremberg, includes description of the Tradescant collection, as well as those in the tower and at Oxford] Travel Diary of Georg Christoph <span class="highlight">Stirn</span> of Nürnberg Author Georg Christoph Stirn Editor of print source from manuscript H. Hager General Editor Brent Nelson OCR and Proofing Elias Nelson Encoding Robert Imes