Peter Kolbe was a German teacher, astronomer, ethnologist, traveller, and explorer of South Africa. His major work was the book Caput bonae spei hodiernum in which he provided detailed descriptions of
Nuremberg is the second-largest city in the German state of Bavaria and the largest city in the cultural region of Franconia. Its 546,397 inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany. Situated
Peter Kolbe
…in Baden-Baden, which allowed him to continue reading and writing. In 1718 he worked in a grammar school in Neustadt and the next year he published in Nuremberg the Caput Bonae Spei Hodiernum (1719). Several translation were later made. Kolbe's book was produced in Nuremberg by Peter Conrad Monath. The book was…