Cort Adeler
Cort Sivertsen Adeler, born Cort Sivertsen (born 16 Dezemberjul / December 26 1622greg in Brevik, Norway, .. † 5 Novemberjul / November 15 1675greg in Copenhagen. . Danish spelling also Coort Sifvertsen Adelaer, German and Curt Sivertsen Adelaer, Dutch Koert Sivertsen Adelaer, Italian Curzio Suffrido Midshipman ) was a Norwegian sailor and later admiral in the navy of the Kingdom of Denmark - Norway, the Dutch fleet and the Navy of the Republic of Venice.
Origin
Adelers father, Sivert Jensen was first bailiff, then town clerk, administrator of a saline and finally from 1621 until his death in 1649 a merchant in Brevik, where the mother Dorthe Nielsdatter still lived until 1656.
Career
Cort Sivertsen was in 1637 at the age of 15 years to Hoorn in the Netherlands, where he was admitted under Cornelis Tromp as a cadet or midshipman ( " Midshipman ") for the officer's career. From 1640 worked on a armed Dutch, traveling to the Republic of Venice merchant ship in the Mediterranean, whose captain he was 1645. In 1646 he married in Hoorn Angelica " Delicia " Sophronia.
About 1648 he entered Venice services to participate in the battles against the Ottoman Empire. For many successful battles he won awards and rewards. At the peak of this career he was section 1660 General Lieutenant of the Venetian fleet.
1661, he resigned from the service and returned to the Netherlands, where his first wife died. The following year, he married in Amsterdam 22- year-old Anna Pelt, who lived until 1694. He took the name Adeler that is to originate from the maternal side of the family, was used in Telemark at this time and in the Netherlands because of the similarity to " Adelaar " (Eng. "Eagle" ) could be interpreted as Ehrbezeichnung.
1663 appointed him Friedrich III. to General Admiral of the Kingdom of Denmark-Norway, preceded by the Dutch Admiral de Ruyter as the successor of the late 1660 Ove Godde had failed. Meanwhile Empire Admiral Henrik Bjelke had the command of the fleet, but was looking Friedrich a man with greater international experience. Already at the end of the year Adeler returned back to the Netherlands, there to gather new ideas for shipbuilding. From 1664 he headed in Bergen the construction of new types of ships under Dutch model. 1664 and again in 1669 he led, again with the emerging naval power Netherlands, difficult negotiations on the delivery of new vessels and vessel capacity as a basis for payment.
1670 Adeler director of the Norwegian-Danish East India Company. In 1671 he was appointed to the "White Knight" of Dannebrogordens. He had built a house in the center of Copenhagen, Christianshavn, but also acquired more properties and values in his native Norway. To this he was able, however, to care little and eventually sold it to his brother Niels.
1675, when the Great Northern War ( 1674-1679 ) expanded on Skåne in Sweden, initiated Adeler the Danish-Norwegian fleet., There was, however, due to storms and both parties raging disease epidemics, in the fall of 1675 not to clash with the Swedish fleet. Instead ill Adeler himself so hard that he had to relinquish the command on November 2, 1675. A few weeks later, on November 25, 1675 he died in Copenhagen.