Paul Hentzner (29 January 1558 – 1 January 1623) was a

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lawyer who published an account of his travels in

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during the late

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. Hentzner was born in Crossen, in the

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. In 1596, he became tutor to a young

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n nobleman, and the following year they set out on a three-year tour of Switzerland,

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, England, and

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. In 1612, Hentzner published an account of his travels in

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as ''Itinerarium Germaniae, Galliae, Angliae, Italiae, cum Indice Locorum, Rerum atque Verborum''. The portion of the work concerning England was later translated into English by Richard Bentley, and published by Horace Walpole. In 1797, ''Hentzner's Travels in England'' was published with Sir

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's ''Fragmenta Regalia'' in one volume, with notes by the translator and the editor.

References

* Introduction,
Travels in England and Fragmenta Regalia
', at

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hentzer, Paul 1558 births 1623 deaths German travel writers 16th-century German lawyers German male non-fiction writers People from Krosno Odrzańskie