Arnold von Harff

Arnold von Harff (1471 in Castell Harff, Bedburg – January 1505) was a 15th-century German traveler from Köln.

He went on pilgrimage to many countries, collecting both languages and cultural information.

He wrote about a number of languages during his travels (1496-1499): Breton, Turkish, Basque, Hebrew, Arabic, Albanian, Hungarian, Syriac, Amharic, and Armenian.

Page of Arnold von Harff's book, with the Breton-low German vocabulary with a drawing of the way Nantes people were dressed