Friderich Martens

Friederich Martens, also: Friedrich, Frideric ( 17th century, exact dates unknown ), was - according to its own name - a "hamburger", who worked as a "Ship barbers ". He left behind two travelogues with numerous pen and ink drawings of landscapes, plant and animal worlds from 1671 about a trip on a whaling ship to Spitsbergen and Greenland, as well as a further voyage to Spain.

Friederich Martens ' Spitz Bergische and Greenland itinerary was printed in Hamburg in 1675 under the title Spitz Bergische or Greenlandic travelogue done in 1671, this work was in 1680 and 1683 into Italian, 1685 1694 1715 translated into French into English and Dutch. ; it remained until the 19th century an important source for the Arctic explorer.

The voyage to Spain was good 250 years unknown; she was first and only time of Wilhelm Junk published in Berlin in 1925 and printed in a small edition, but transferred to a smaller format and the current German. The manuscript - consisting of 62 leaves, of which 38 are provided with pen and ink drawings, and integrated into the makulierte parchment of a medieval choir book page - belonged to the book collection of the Hamburg scholar Johann Peter Kohl, who it in 1768 along with his library as Donum Kohlianum leaving the Altona High School Academicum Christianeum where it is today.