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DOBRIZHOFFER, MARTIN (1717-1791)

This article appears in Volume V08, Page 351 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DIO-DRO
DOBRIZHOFFER, MARTIN (1717-1791) , Austrian Roman Catholic missionary, was born at Gratz, in Styria. He joined the Society of Jesus in 1736, and in 1749 proceeded to
Paraguay
 ,where for eighteen years he worked devotedly first among the Guaranis, and then among the
Abipones
 . Returning to Europe on the expulsion of the
Jesuits
  from
South
  America, he settled at Vienna, obtained the friendship of Maria
Theresa
 , survived the extinction of his order, composed the history of his mission, and died on the 17th of July 1791. The lively if rather garrulous book on which his title tp remembrance rests, appeared at Vienna in 1784, in the author's own Latin, and in a German translation by Professor Krail of the university of Pest. Of its contents some idea may be obtained from its extended title :Historia de Abiponibus, Equestri Bellicosaque Paraguariae Natione, locupletata Copiosis Barbararum Gentium, Urbium, Fluminum, Ferarum, Amphibiarum, Insectorum, Serpentium praecipuorum, Piscium, Avium, A rborum, Plant arumaliarumque ejusdem Provinciae Pro prietatum Observationibus. In 1822 there appeared in London an
anonymous
  translation sometimes ascribed to Southey, but really the
work
  of Sara Coleridge; who had undertaken the task to defray the college expenses of one of her brothers. A-delicate compliment was paid to the translator by Southey in the third
canto
  of his Tale of
Paraguay
 , the story of which was derived from the pages of
Dobrizhoffer
 's narrative:
" And if he could in Merlin's glass have seen
By whom his tomes to speak our tongue were taught,: The old man would have felt as pleased, I ween,
As when he won the ear of that
great
  Empress Queen."


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