Karl Koldewey

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Karl Koldewey (1868) Karl Christian Koldewey (born October 26, 1837 in Bücken near Hoya, Lower Saxony - May 17, 1908 in Hamburg) is a German sailor, navy captain, traveler and polar explorer.

After graduating from junior high school, he enrolled as a junga on a ship. At the age of 22, he entered the renowned sea school in Bremen, where, with a break from maritime practice, he became a master of shipping. Between 1866 and 1867 he studied mathematics, physics and astronomy at the universities of Hanover and Göttingen.

From May to October 1868, as captain of a small sailboat "Grönland", he was the commander of the first German Arctic expedition on the initiative of the eminent German geographer and cartographer August Petermann. This expedition reached the east coast of Greenland and then to the Hinlopen Strait between Spitsbergen and Northwest Territories in the Svalbard archipelago, reaching 81 ° 5 'north latitude.

Between 1869 and 1870, as the captain of the steamship, "Germania" was the commander of the second German Arctic expedition to Greenland and the North Sea, which wintered on Sabine Island. The culmination of the expedition was the discovery and exploration of the Emperor Francis Joseph's Fjord on the east coast of Greenland.

Karl Koldewey's name was given to a German research station (Koldewey-Station), founded in 1991 by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven in Ny-Ålesund on the west coast of Spitsbergen. Bibliography

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