Andreas Kornerup

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Andreas Nicolaus Kornerup

Andreas Nicolaus Kornerup (born February 7, 1857 in Copenhagen ; † September 3, 1881 ibid) was a Danish geologist and polar explorer who took part in three expeditions to West Greenland . In addition to scientific treatises, he left behind numerous drawings and watercolors that were created on his travels.

Life

Andreas Kornerup was the eldest of five children of the lithographer and portrait artist Lars Andreas Kornerup (1822–1894) and his wife Anna Margrethe Julie (1828–1888), née. Berentsen. The painter Valdemar Vincent Kornerup (1865–1924) was his youngest brother. Andreas Kornerup passed his preliminary exam at Mariboe's school in Copenhagen in 1872. From 1873 to 1878 he studied at the Polytechnische Lehranstalt . In the year of his graduation he also attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts . In December 1879 he became a lecturer in soil science at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University .

In 1876 Kornerup took part in his first expedition to Greenland . On behalf of the "Commission for geological and geographical investigations in Greenland" (Kommissions for geologiske og geografiske undersøgelser i Grønland) he explored the colonial district Julianehaab (Qaqortoq) in South Greenland with the naval officer Gustav Frederik Holm and the geologist Knud Johannes Vogelius Steenstrup . In 1878 he undertook with Jens Arnold Diderich Jensen , Thorvald Groth (1847-1891) and the Inuk Habakuk a much-noticed foray into the inland ice near Paamiut . Plagued by snow blindness , they marched on the surface of the ice sheet, shaped by crevasses and meltwater rivers, 70 km to the group of the JAD Jensens Nunatakker . The expedition reached a maximum height of 1543  m and provided information about the glaciological conditions in this region, which is rich in Nunataks . Jensen's astronomical and meteorological observations as well as the plants and rock samples that Kornerup collects on the Nunatat were also of scientific value. Just a year later, another expedition with Jensen and Regnar Hammer (1855–1930) took him to the coast between Sisimiut and Aasiaat . Here he became seriously ill with pulmonary tuberculosis . After his suffering had improved in the meantime, he died on September 3, 1881. He was buried in the garrison cemetery (Garrisons Kirkegård) in Copenhagen.

Greenland pictures

Kornerup's expeditions to Greenland inspired more than 300 pictures. His drawings and watercolors depict landscapes, plants and everyday life in Greenlanders. The work reflects the synthesis of Kornerup's professional accuracy and artistic talent. As early as 1882, his works were exhibited in Charlottenborg Palace , the seat of the Danish Art Academy. In 1916 his pictures were donated to the Museum of Commerce and Maritime in Helsingør. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the “Commission for Geological and Geographical Studies in Greenland”, the illustrated book Kornerups Grønland was published in 1976 with a selection of his works.

  • On the inland ice

  • Residential house in Sisimiut

  • Greenlandic woman washing clothes

Honors

At the suggestion of Adolf Erik Nordenskjöld , Andreas Kornerup was given the honor of being appointed a foreign member by the Swedish Geological Society (Geologiska Föreningen) in 1880. He is the namesake of the Kornerup nunatak in the Umiivik region of the Ammassalik district and the A. Kornerup land in the Narsaq district . The mineral Kornerupine is also named after him.

Works (selection)

  • Geologiske Iagttagelser fra Vestkysten af ​​Grønland (62 ° 15′ – 64 ° 15 ′ N.Br.) . In: Meddelelser om Grønland . Volume 1, 1879, pp. 77-139.
  • Det organiske Liv paa the most important nunatak . In: Meddelelser om Grønland . Volume 1, 1879, pp. 150-152.
  • Om Grønlands Natur i forskjellige Egne af Landet . In: Geografisk Tidsskrift . Volume 4, 1880, pp. 2-9.
  • Geologiske Iagttagelser fra Vestkysten af ​​Grønland (66 ° 55′ – 68 ° 15 ′ N.Br.) . In: Meddelelser om Grønland . Volume 2, 1881, pp. 149-194 ( digitized version ).
  • Om Grønlands Indlandsis og the danske Slæde expedition 1878 . In: Tidsskrift Naturv. 1880. pp. 193-226.
  • Kornerups Grønland: Andreas Kornerup - Sketcher from Grønland, 1876–79 . Commissions for videnskabelige undersøgelser i Grønland, Copenhagen 1978, ISBN 978-87-9806-230-1 .

literature

  • Edvard Erslev: Andreas Kornerup . In: Geografisk Tidsskrift . Volume 5, 1881, p. 157 f. (Danish).

Web links

Commons : Andreas Nicolaus Kornerup  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Steen, Ebbe Kornerup: Kornerupslægten 1644–1982 (PDF; 30.3 MB). Hernov, Copenhagen 1982, ISBN 978-87-7215-980-5
  2. ^ Fridtjof Nansen : On snowshoes through Greenland . Second volume, Verlagsanstalt und Druckerei AG, Hamburg 1891, p. 53 ff.
  3. ^ Friederike Hagemeyer: Pictures from the far north. Works by Danish expedition painters 1876–1908 in the Copenhagen North Atlantic House in Musenblätter. The independent culture magazine , accessed on April 23, 2020.
  4. ↑ Kornerups Greenland - Skizzer fra Grønland . Review by Ruth Helkiær Jensen in: Geografisk Tidsskrift . Volume 77, 1978, p. 104 (Danish).
personal data
SURNAME Kornerup, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kornerup, Andreas Nicolaus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish geologist and polar explorer
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 1881
Place of death Copenhagen