Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Verden, Karl von

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This is a fictitious person. There is a marked incompatibility in that the subject was supposedly German, but the titles of the alleged literary works are written in Spanish, and there is also a spelling error in the name of one of the alleged literary works.

4650014Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography — Verden, Karl von

VERDEN, Karl von (vair'-den), German missionary, b. in Schweidnitz, Silesia, about 1620; d. in Buenos Ayres in 1697. He became a Jesuit, was attached to the South American missions, and labored for about twenty years among the Indians of Tucuman. Afterward he was librarian of the convent of Buenos Ayres. His works include "Geografia y Misiones del Rio de la Plata" (Madrid, 1710); "Informe de las Misiones del Tucumán" (1711); and "Información sobre las Misiones y Establecimientos de la Compañia de Jesús en la America meridional" (2 vols., 1715).