Template:Did you know nominations/Samuel van der Putte

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:17, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

Samuel van der Putte

One of the few of Samuel van der Putte's notes to survive, the first western map of Bhutan
One of the few of Samuel van der Putte's notes to survive, the first western map of Bhutan
  • ... that after traveling through India, Tibet, and the Qing Empire for over 20 years Samuel van der Putte (1690–1745) ordered his notes and journals to be burned rather than accept their misuse?
    • ALT1:... that the Dutch traveler Samuel van der Putte (1690–1745) scandalized his roommates, the Catholic missionaries of Lhasa, but was on good terms with the town's lamas?
    • ALT2:... that the first European map to actually show Bhutan rather than confuse it with Tibet (pictured) was drawn by the Dutch traveler Samuel van der Putte (1690–1745), who ordered it to be burned?
    • ALT3:... that Samuel van der Putte—the son of a Dutch admiral—became a lawyer, alderman, and doctor before leaving Europe to hang out with Catholic missionaries and Buddhist lamas in Lhasa?
    • ALT4:... that Dutch traveler Samuel van der Putte’s map of Bhutan (pictured) was spared the burning of his journals and notes but destroyed by Allied bombing during World War II?
    • ALT5:... that Samuel van der Putte may have had his journals burnt to keep them out of English hands but his map of Bhutan (pictured) only survives today because it was copied by a Brit before the bombing of Middelburg?
  • Reviewed: Will do Wang Shaoguang
  • Comment: Kindly don't add any extraneous links: we don't need to promote traffic to Bhutan or Lama; I had nothing to do with either; and the curious can click through from the new article instead of the hook.

    W/r/t ALT5, kindly remember that the (pictured) shouldn't count towards the character limit (which it totally hits, but the guy had a long name and the situation was a bit complicated)

Created by LlywelynII (talk). Self-nominated at 16:52, 4 August 2019 (UTC).

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