Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen
Ludvig Mylius - Erichsen ( born January 15, 1872 in Viborg, † November 25, 1907 on Greenland) was a Danish Greenland researchers.
1902 to 1904 he headed the Danish Literary Expedition along the west coast of Greenland to the Cape York district, including the painter and draftsman Harald Moltke and the Danish - Greenlandic polar explorer Knud Rasmussen participated in the. The aim of the expedition wintered 1903/1904 on Saunders Island, was the ethnographic field research among the Polar Eskimos, in particular the recording of their songs and legends.
In 1906 he was entrusted with the management of the Danmark Expedition. The aim of the expedition was to explore the last unknown piece of Greenland's northeast coast between Cape Bismarck and Cape Bridgman. To his team also included the German Alfred Wegener and the Danish artist Johannes Friis Achton. The first meteorological station in Greenland was built in Danmarkshavn, and dragons, and the first time captive balloons for meteorological measurements in the arctic climate were used.
Two groups explored by dogsled and three participants and measured the coastline. The expedition came to a tragic end. The group with Ludvig Mylius - Erichsen, the Greenlanders Jørgen Brønlund as slide guides and hunters and Niels Peter Høeg -Hagen (1877-1907) as a cartographer did not return. At a depot in Lambert Land (79 ° N. ) found the search expedition in the next year, only the corpse of Brønlund and his records and diaries, which revealed the death of the other two. Their bodies should be located north of Lambert- land on the ice in the fjord in front of the glacier. They could not be found until today. Peter Freuchen, also members of the expedition, threw Mylius Erichsen failure in planning before: Obviously, the group also had a needle and thread forgot to fix her shoe stuff. They could not go at the end of summer with frozen feet.
1933, 25 years after the return of the expedition, was the naval officer, leader of the expedition ship Danmark and - after Mylius Erichsen - death - leader of the expedition, Captain Alf Trolle ( 1879-1949 ), characterized by a silver commemorative medal. He gathered together for the 25th anniversary of the conclusion of the expedition, the surviving members of the expedition in his house " trolls Minde " in Rörvig and handed them the medal. A total of 28 participants were broken up into the expedition, 25 returned ( they received the dän. Medal of Merit ). 1933 were still alive 19 The medal was to spend only 19 of these 25 survivors and the next of kin of each of those killed. The design was provided by the artist Harald Moltke. Was modeled on a similarly designed by Moltke plate of the Royal. Copenhagen Porcelain Manufactory, which is also the cairn shows the built in 1908, the expedition members in Danmarkshavn in memory of the perished comrades.
After Ludvig Mylius - Eriksen the Mylius - Erichsen country is named Greenland.