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Bernhardus Varenius
German geographer
"Varenius" redirects here. For Romans named Varenius, Varenus, or Vorenus, see Varena gens.
Bernhardus Varenius (Bernhard Varen) (, Hitzacker, Lower Saxony ) was a German geographer.
Life
His early years (from ) were spent at Uelzen, where his father was court preacher to the duke of Brunswick.
Looking for books by Bernhardus Varenius?Varenius studied at the gymnasium of Hamburg (–), and at Königsberg (–) and Leiden (–) universities, where he devoted himself to mathematics and medicine, taking his medical degree at Leiden in He then settled at Amsterdam, intending to practice medicine.
But the recent discoveries of Abel Tasman, Willem Schouten and other Dutch navigators, and his friendship for Willem Blaeu and other geographers, attracted Varenius to geography. He died in , aged only twenty-eight, a victim to the privations and miseries of a poor scholar's life.[1]
Works
In he published, through L.
Elzevir of Amsterdam, his Descriptio Regni Ja