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Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach (22 Feb 1683 - 6 Jan 1734)

German scholar, bibliophile, book-collector, traveller, palaeographer, and consul in Frankfurt am Main. In 1705 von Uffenbach travelled in the Netherlands and in 1709-1710 he travelled through Germany, Holland and England, collecting books and greatly enriching his library collection. In 1718 he took his last trip through Belgium. Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacharias_Conrad_von_Uffenbach Relevant locations: Housed collection or remnant at Oxford Anatomy School, Schools Quadrangle
Residence at Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Visited Ranelagh House, Chelsea
 Relationships: Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach was a brother of Johann Friedrich Uffenbach (6 May 1687-10 Apr 1769)

Adam Buddle (bap. 1662-1715) was a visited by Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach
Joseph Crabbe (1674-19 Jul 1712) was a visited by Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach
Melchior Philippus Hartmann (1685-) was a unspecified Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach
Honnyman (-) was a subject of cont. description or discourse by Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach
Karger (-) was a travelling companion of Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach
Oxford Anatomy School (-) was a visited by Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach
John Woodward (1 May 1665 or 1668-25 Apr 1728) was a visited by Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach
Worshipful Society of Apothecaries (1617-) was a visited by Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach
Linked print sources: as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - London in 1710, from the Travels of Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach .
as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - Merkwurdige Reisen durch Niedersachsen, Holland und Engelland.
as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - Merkwürdige Reisen durch Niedersachsen, Holland und Engelland.
as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - Oxford in 1710: From the Travels of Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach.
as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - The Collector's Voice: Critical Readings in the Practice of Collecting. Volume 2. Early Voices.
as Mentioned or referenced by - Cambridge Under Queen Anne Illustrated by Memoir of Ambrose Bonwicke and Diaries of Francis Burman and Zacharias Conrad Von Uffenbach.
as Mentioned or referenced by - The savage and modern self: North American Indians in eighteenth-century British literature and culture.
as Mentions or references - Les délices de la Grand' Bretagne, & de l'Irelande; où sont exactement décrites les antiquitez, les provinces, les villes ... la religion, les mœurs des habitans, leurs jeux, leurs divertissemens, & généralement tout ce qu'il y a de plus considerable à remarquer.
as Subject of/in a document - Leben Herrn Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach.
as Traveller - A New View of London; or, an ample account of that city, in two volumes, or eight sections.
as Traveller - Merkwürdige Reisen durch Niedersachsen, Holland und Engelland.
as Visitor - Merkwürdige Reisen durch Niedersachsen, Holland und Engelland.
as Visitor - The Collector's Voice: Critical Readings in the Practice of Collecting. Volume 2. Early Voices.
 References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) Compendium Compertorum per Doctorem Legh, & Doctorem Layton in visitatione Regia Domorum Religiosarum, in Comitatibus de Northfolk, Darby, Nottingham, Yorke, Durham, Westmorland, Cumberland, Lancaster and Chester
London in 1710, from the travels of Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach

Von Uffenbach refers shortly here to SIR HANS SLOANE, who was Secretary of the Royal Society from 30 November, 1693, till 1712, and to SIR ISAAC NEWTON, 1642-1727, who was President of the Society from 1703 to 1728. He mentions the name of the noted Dr. John Woodward here, and interviews and describes him later.

London in 1710, from the travels of Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach

JOHN WOODWARD, 1665-1728, the physician and geologist; F.R.S., 30 November, 1693; F.R.C.P., 22 March, 1703. He died at Gresham College on 25 April, 1728.

Von Uffenbach was greatly edified with Woodward's characteristics and peculiarities.

London in 1710, from the travels of Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach

JAMES PETIVER of Hillmorton, b. 1663. He was an apothecary and practised in Aldersgate Street from 1692 to 1718. He was a noted naturalist and entomologist. He was elected F.R.S. in 1695. He died in 1718 and was buried in St. Botolph's Church, Aldersgate Street. See 24 July as to von Uffenbach's later visit.

London in 1710, from the travels of Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach

Von Uffenbach evidently meant to write Tompion, 1638-1713; see earlier note. Tomson Tompion the London watchmaker worked fifty years later.