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Henri Ternaux-Compans
Henri Ternaux-Compans (born in Paris in 1807; died there in December 1864) was a French historian.
Biography.
After finishing his studies in Paris, he entered the diplomatic service and was secretary of the embassies at Madrid and Lisbon, and chargé d'affaires in Brazil, but resigned, and devoted several years to travel through Spain and South America, doing research in the state libraries. Toward the close of Louis Philippe's reign he was elected a deputy, but he soon returned
true story of a noteworthy trip made by Ulrich Schmidel von Straubingen in America or the New World from 1534 to 1554, where will be found all his troubles of 19 years and the description of lands and noteworthy peoples he saw, described by himself; Frankfort, 1557), of which a Latin version appeared in Nuremberg in 1599 as "Vera historia", etc. Henri Ternaux-Compans published a translation of the work in his "Voyages, relations et mémoires originaux pour servir à l'histoire de la découverte de l'Amérique,