Arnold_von_Harff
Arnold von Harff
German traveler and author (1471–1505)
Arnold von Harff (1471 in Castell Harff, Bedburg – January 1505) was a 15th-century German traveler from Köln. He went on pilgrimage to many countries, collecting both languages and cultural information. He wrote about a number of languages during his travels (1496-1499): Breton, Croatian, Turkish, Basque, Hebrew, Arabic, Albanian, Hungarian, Syriac, Amharic, and Armenian.