Breidenbach, Bernhard Von

Breidenbach, Bernhard Von a priest of Mentz, visited Palestine about 1483, and on his return to Germany wrote a Latin account of his travels, which was published with illustrations of the scenery, costumes, and animals of the Holy Land, and several Oriental alphabets, said to have been the first ever printed. He died in 1497. See Appleton's American Cyclopedia, s.v.