Hans Pothorst

Hans Pothorst was a German explorer of the 15th century. He is regarded as one of the potential explorers of North America.

Life

A native of Hildesheim Hans Pothorst led together with a native of the same city Didrik Pining probably 1471-1473 by order of King Christian I of Denmark and Norway, an expedition to the North Atlantic. They came probably to Greenland, and perhaps also to Newfoundland and Labrador, and thus to the North American mainland. The details of this trip but must be reconstructed from scattered sources and are therefore controversial in the research. So it is not clear whether Pining and Pothorst should seek a western route to India. It is also not unique to decide whether said also as an explorer of Newfoundland João Vaz Corte- Real ( also: João Vaz Corte Real) participated as an emissary of King Alfonso V of Portugal on this trip. As helmsman John Scolvus is ( elsewhere also John Skolp ) called. It conjectures have been made that it may have been at the mysterious figure of John Skolp to the young Christopher Columbus ( Skolp was also identified on equally uncertain foundation, with Pothorst or Corte- Real).

Swell

  • Walter Krämer ( eds.): The discovery and exploration of the earth. F. A. Brockhaus Verlag, Leipzig 1976, DNB 770,133,983th

Further literature on Hans Pothorst and Didrik Pining

More recent literature

  • Norman Berdichevsky: The role of " sibling rivalry " in the " (re) discovery" of America controversy. In: Journal of Cultural Geography. 12/1 (1991 ), pp. 59-68. ( National Competitiveness among Spain, Portugal, Sweden, and Denmark led in the period 1425-1476 to a joint expedition by the Danes and Portuguese Involving Pothorst, Pining, and Cortereal Which Discovered the North American mainland)
  • Thomas L. Hughes: The German discovery of America. A review of the controversy over Pining 's 1473 voyage of exploration. In: German studies review. Vol 27, No. 3, October 2004, pp. 503-526. Abstract (PDF ) Current research overview, which sets out the outstanding issues of the various interpretations and comes to the conclusion that it is not possible to decide unequivocally how far Pinings trip took
  • Helge Ingstad: The Norse discovery of North America. In: Lund studies in English. Volume 78/1988, pp. 149-155.
  • Klaus -Peter Kiedel: An expedition to Greenland in 1473. In: German Maritime Archives. Vol 3, 1980, pp. 115-140.
  • Anton Josef Knott, E. H. Günther Baumann, Hans Schlotter: 20 years before Columbus landed Hildesheimer Dietrich Pining in America. ( Publications of the Hildesheim Local History Society ). Hildesheim 1992.
  • Robert McGhee: Northern Approaches. Before Columbus: Early European visitors to the Shores of the " New World". Add to Beaver. Volume 72 June / July 1992, p 6-23. (Excerpts available on the Internet ( version of 1 February 2006 on the Internet Archive ) )
  • Paul Pini: The Hildesheim Didrik Pining as the discoverer of America, as an admiral and governor of Iceland in the service of the Kings of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Hildesheim 1971, DNB 457,813,431th
  • The Dansk Biografisk leksikon. vol. XI, pp. 381, 459

Older literature

  • Johannes Heinrich Gebauer: The Hildesheim Dietrich Pining as Nordic naval hero and explorer. In: Alt- Hildesheim. Volume 12/1933, pp. 3-18.
  • Gunnar Gunnarson: The mystery of Didrik Pining: a report. Stuttgart 1939.
  • Dietrich Kohl: Dietrich Pining and Hans Pothorst. Two skippers from the days of the Hanseatic League and the great discoveries. In: Hanseatic history leaves. ll. 57/1932, pp. 152ff.
  • Sophus Larsen: The Discovery of North America Twenty years Before Columbus. In 1925.
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