Godske Lindenov

Godske Christoffersen Lindenov († 1612 in Copenhagen, also Lindenow or Lindenose ) was a Danish admiral and sailors.

Life

Lindenov came from a noble family. His father was Christoffer Clausen Lindenov († 1593), his mother Sophie Hartvigsdatter Plessen. In 1602 he was part of the escort of Prince John, son of Frederick II, who on the trip to Moscow to marry the Russian Princess Xenia, the daughter of Tsar Boris Godunov, fell ill and died.

Lindenov took from 1605 onwards on the first two Greenland expeditions under Christian IV part. In the first expedition to him the command of the Røde Lowen was transferred. In the course of the expedition, there was a dispute with the navigator James Hall, and Lindenov continued the journey on your own away. He landed on the west coast of Greenland near the present-day Qeqertarsuatsiaat and acquired there skins and walrus and Narwalhörner. After his return to Copenhagen, he was celebrated for his rediscovery of Greenland.

In the second expedition in 1606, he was appointed general manager. The expedition fleet of five ships left Copenhagen on May 27. Since Lindenov was much further north than previously on a course, the ships ran into the East Greenland Current and were driven up to the coast of the Labrador Peninsula. During the subsequent attempt to reach Greenland, the ships lost in thick fog and floating ice in contact with each other so that three ships had to turn back. Lindenov reached the Greenland coast aboard the consolation on 27 July near the present-day Sisimiut. On August 6th, we reached the Itivdleqfjord. Lindenov had gained extensive rock samples, in which he suspected silver ore, before he took the return trip on August 10.

Upon arrival in Denmark on October 4, 1606, however, put the rock as worthless out, and otherwise the result of Lindenovs expedition was sobering. While Christian IV again now, led an expedition to the Arctic, the following year with Carsten Richardson in the ways Lindenov was appointed head of the shipyard. From 1611 he took part in the Baltic Sea at the Kalmar War. On March 10, 1611 he married Karen Gyldenstjerne, daughter of Henrik Gyldenstjerne and Birgitte trolls. The marriage went Christoffer Lindenov ( c. 1612-1679 ), also an admiral in the Danish Navy, shows.

Lindenov died the following year in Copenhagen after an illness. According to him, the Lindenowfjord is at the southern tip of Greenland, near Cape Farewell, named.

Swell

  • William J. Mills: Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC - Clio, Santa Barbara, 2003, pp. 381f. , ISBN 978-1576074220.
  • Lindenov, Godske. From: Carl Frederik Bricka (ed.): Dansk biografisk lexicon, tillige omfattende Norge for tidsrummet 1537-1814. 19 Bde, Sansoni, Copenhagen 1887-1905.
  • Man
  • Dane
  • Seafarer
  • Born in the 16th century
  • Died in 1612
Cape Farewell, Greenland
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