James Bruce
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Scottish explorer and botanist (1730–1794)
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1730-12-14 ) 14 December 1730, Kinnaird House, Larbert , Stirlingshire, Scotland
- Died
- 27 April 1794 (1794-04-27) (aged 63), Kinnaird House, Larbert, Stirlingshire, Scotland
- Occupations
- Traveller travel writer
- Known for
- Traced the origins of the Blue Nile
- Notable work
- Travels (1790)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- James
- Family name
- Bruce
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Place of birth
- Stirling
- Place of death
- Stirling
- Occupation
- astronomer
- Educated at
- Harrow School
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- botany
- Image
- James Bruce.jpg
- Work location
- Edinburgh
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- member of
- Royal Society
- Commons category
- James Bruce (explorer)
- date of birth
- 1730-12-14
- date of death
- 1794-04-27
- Commons gallery
- James Bruce
- writing language
- English language
- has works in the collection
- Yale Center for British Art
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Encyclopedic overview
James Bruce of Kinnaird (14 December 1730 – 27 April 1794) was a Scottish traveller and travel writer who physically confirmed the source of the Blue Nile. He spent more than a dozen years in North and East Africa and in 1770 became the first European to trace and document the course of the Nile by following it upstream from Egypt through Sudan to its origins in the Blue Nile in Ethiopia.
Early life
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