Winckelmann, Frans Carel Philip

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29.1.1789 Winckelmann at B Hollis' / 20.4.1789 there. In Godwin's 1796 list for 1789. and in 1794 version.

Subscribed to works of John Jebb 1787, mentioned in Brand Hollis' will (PCC 1804 dated 2.11.1792) as 'Mr de Winckelmann lately living at Ipswich'. Saur, Deutsche Biographiscche Enzyklopadie has Frans Carel Philip Baron von Winckelmann 1757-1820 friend of Schiller, visited South Africa 1788/9 and wrote report on police-free society of Xhosa, went to Ceylon (then a Dutch colony) in 1791 and was British prisoner of war there from 1796 for 10 years, then became director of the Javanese timber forests and died there in 1820