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He was born in Lübeck and undertook several trading journeys to Moscow.
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- Translations Into English A Journal of the Embassy from Their Majesties John and Peter Alexievitz (1698)Into French Relation du voyage de Mr Evert Isbrand, envoyé de Sa Majesté czarienne à l'empereur de Chine, en 1692, 93 et 94 (1699)Into Dutch Seer aenmercklijcke Land- en Water-Reys, Onlanghs gedaen van't Gesantschap sijner tegenwoordigh-regeerende Czarsche Majesteyt uyt Muscouw na China, onder desselven Ambassadeur de Heer Isbrand, door Groot-Ustiga, Sibeien, Dauren, Mongalisch Tattaryen, &c (1699).
Adam Brand
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In 1692 the czar Peter the Great entrusted Eberhard Isbrand Ides with a mission to Emperor Kangxi of China. Adam Brand accompanied him as secretary of the embassy.Ides and his mission, which consisted of more than 250 noblemen, advisors, merchants and soldiers, reached Beijing, the capital city of the Empire, in 1693 after 18 months of traveling In 1697 Adam Brand was made Court Councillor and Commercial Councillor (Hofrath and Commerzienrath respectively (honorary titles bestowed by the Prussian state)).
Although Brand had been chosen to act as Prussian envoy to Persia, the death of King Frederic I of Prussia in 1713 led to this project never being materialised.
He then went to reside at Königsberg where he ended his days in 1746.
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Translations Into English A Journal of the Embassy from Their Majesties John and Peter Alexievitz (1698)Into French Relation du voyage de Mr Evert Isbrand, envoyé de Sa Majesté czarienne à l'empereur de Chine, en 1692, 93 et 94 (1699)Into Dutch Seer aenmercklijcke Land- en Water-Reys, Onlanghs gedaen van't Gesantschap sijner tegenwoordigh-regeerende Czarsche Majesteyt uyt Muscouw na China, onder desselven Ambassadeur de Heer Isbrand, door Groot-Ustiga, Sibeien, Dauren, Mongalisch Tattaryen, &c (1699).
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