Johan Nieuhof, Dutch traveler (died 1672)

Johan Nieuhof

Dutch explorer, writer, sinologist (1618–1672)

Johan Nieuhof was a Dutch traveler who wrote about his journeys to Brazil, China and India. The most famous of these was a trip of 2,400 kilometers (1,500 mi) from Canton to Peking in 1655-1657, which enabled him to become an authoritative Western writer on China. He wrote An…