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Bernhardus Varenius (Bernhard Varen) (1622 in Hitzacker (near Lüneburg), Germany – 1650) was a German geographer. Life. His early years (from 1627) were spent at Uelzen, where ...
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Bernhardus Varenius (1622-50), also known as Bernhard Varen, German geographer, whose Geographia Generalis (1650) was the most highly regarded treatise on geography for more than a century. Varenius divided geography into two parts—general (now called systematic) and special, which identified regions according to interactions between human and environmental processes. He also published Descriptio Regni Japoniae (Description of the Kingdom of Japan) in 1649, a study of Japan that also contained a treatise on Siam (now Thailand).

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