Carl Sandreczki (1809 – 1892) was a German

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Biography

Carl Sandreczki, a Bavarian, studied law at

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. He served as a judge under the administration of King

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, on the

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island of

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in the

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. After converting from

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, he was appointed secretary of the

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Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

. He settled there in 1851, after the establishment of the in the Old City (now the compound housing the Maronite Convent), not far from Christ Church. Sandreczki conducted a 10-day survey in which he documented the streets, gates and buildings of the city for the

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and provided the Arabic names for locations, as well as two maps - one of the city, and one of the

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.The survey, ''Namen der Plätze'', appeared in a shorter English version in Wilson's Ordnance Survey. Wallach, Yair (2020). ''A City in Fragments: Urban Text in Modern Jerusalem''
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Stanford University Press, . Retrieved 1 Sep 2022. Carl Sandreczki's son, Max Sandreczky, was a pediatric surgeon in Jerusalem.

Published works

*Carl Sandreczki (1867). "Die Heuschreckenplage in Palästina" he plague of locusts in Palestine ''Wochenblatt der Johanniterballey Brandenburg'' VIII, Nr. 5. 6, pp. 29-36 Foucher de Chartres. ''Historia Hierosolymitana, 1095-1127''. Heinrich Hagenmeyer, ed. Heidelberg, 1913. p
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Retrieved 31 August 2022. *Carl Sandreczki (1868).
Warren's Ausgrabungen in Jerusalem
arren's excavations in Jerusalem Gotha: ''Mittheilungen aus

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' Geographischer Anstalt über wichtige neue Erforschungen auf dem Gesammtgebiete der Geographie'' 14, pp. 290-94 *Carl Sandreczki (1871). "Briefe aus Palästina" etters from Palestine ''Das Ausland'' 44, p. 810 *Carl Sandreczki (1872). "Zur alten Geographie Palästinas" n the ancient geography of Palestine ''Das Ausland'' 5, pp. 73-78, 97-103 *Carl Sandreczki (1874). "Wozu uns Deutsche der "Palestine Exploration Fund" ermahnt" hat the "Palestine Exploration Fund" prompts us Germans to do ''Das Ausland'' 47, pp. 114-15

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sandreczki, Carl German Protestant missionaries 1808 births 1892 deaths Converts to Protestantism from Roman Catholicism German expatriates in the Ottoman Empire Expatriates in Ottoman Palestine Protestant missionaries in Palestine (region)

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