Editing Carsten Niebuhr (section)

==Death and legacy==
Niebuhr died in [[Meldorf]] in 1815.

[[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]] (1749-1832) highly prized Niebuhr's works. In 1811 he wrote to Niebuhr's son, [[Barthold Georg Niebuhr]], that "You carry a name which I have learned to honour since my youth."

Carsten Niebuhrs Gade, a street in the port area of [[Copenhagen]], is named after him.

In 2011, Copenhagen's National Library and National Museum held exhibitions of Carsten Niebuhr's life and work, celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Danish Arabia Expedition's commencement. Commemorative Carsten Niebuhr postal stamps were issued. And in the same year the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs had planned a series of cultural events based on the Expedition and Niebuhr's work that would take place in Ankara, Cairo, Damascus, Beirut, Tehran, and Yemen. It has been suggested that these efforts were intended in part to repair the reputational damage in the Islamic world caused by the [[Danish cartoon controversy]]. Ultimately, the planned events were prevented by the [[Arab Spring]].<ref>Moscrop, Andrew. ''The Camel's Neighbour : Travel and Travellers in Yemen''. Oxford, 2020. p. 81.</ref>