Niels Peter Høeg-Hagen
Niels Peter Høeg-Hagen (born October 15, 1877 on the Gundersted estate near Nibe , Jutland , † November 15, 1907 in Greenland ) was a Danish officer, cartographer and polar explorer . He died in 1907 during the Danmark expeditions on a toboggan trip to Independence Fjord in northeast Greenland together with the expedition leader Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen and the sleigh driver Jørgen Brønlund .
Life
Høeg-Hagen was born on the estate of his father Jacob Bernhard Høeg-Hagen (1843–1913) to Ludovika Vilhelmine Bie (1847–1922). At the age of eleven he came to Copenhagen with his parents and later to Holbæk , where he attended secondary school. As a conscript in the infantry , he decided to embark on the officer career. After attending the officers' school , he was promoted to prime lieutenant in 1900 .
When Mylius-Erichsen put together his team for the Danmark Expedition in 1906, the main aim of which was to clear up the last unknown coastline in northeast Greenland, he considered Høeg-Hagen's application for the post of cartographer . The expedition ship Danmark anchored in Danmarkshavn in the south of Germanialand in August , where the expedition team wintered near the 77th parallel. On March 28, 1907, two sled teams drove north. After the first team, led by Mylius-Erichsen, had explored the Danmarkfjord and the second team led by Johan Peter Koch had reached Cape Bridgman in Pearyland , they surprisingly met at Cape Rigsdagen. While Koch returned to Denmark , Mylius-Erichsen drove with Høeg-Hagen and Brønlund to Independence Fjord to map it. The team was delayed and could not start the return trip to the base camp before autumn due to the onset of the thaw. The three men died in November 1907, weak from hunger and cold. Koch found the dead Brønlund and Høeg-Hagens map sketches in 1908 in Lambertland . Mylius-Erichsen and Høeg-Hagen were never found.
In Northeast Greenland are the glaciers Hagen Brae and Hagen Fjord, in which he calves, named also by Niels Peter Høeg Hagen Hagen as the island diameter, on the Høeg-Hagen in the fall of 1906 spent two days.
literature
- G. Amdrup : Report on the Danmark Expedition to the North-East Coast of Greenland 1906-1908 . In: Meddelelser om Grønland 41, 1913, pp. 1-270 (English).
- Spencer Apollonio: Lands that Hold One Spellbound . University of Calgary Press, 2008, ISBN 978-1-55238-240-0 , pp. 101–120 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
Web links
- NP Høeg Hagen im Dansk biografisk leksikon (Danish)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Høeg-Hagen, Niels Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Høeg Hagen, Niels Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish officer, cartographer and polar explorer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 15, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gut Gundersted near Nibe , Jutland |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 15, 1907 |
| Place of death | Greenland |