Introduction
Journal: Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen)
Year: 2013

In 1791 Carsten Niebuhr published a review of the first two volumes of Bruce's Reisen zur Entdeckung der Quellen des Nils (1790).Niebuhr's strongest criticism of Bruce was that he seemed to have plagiarized some of Niebuhr's astronomical observations ("adopted them without examination") and that he had invented conversation long after it had taken place and thereby made serious mistakes.Privately, Niebuhr held more stern and critical opinions of Bruce's work: two of the described voyages on the