Arent Christopher Heilmann

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Arent Christopher Heilmann (also Arendt Christopher Heilmann ; born April 5, 1781 in Kerteminde , † July 10, 1830 in Ringsted ) was a Danish merchant and inspector of Greenland .

Life

Heilmann was an assistant in Greenland in 1802. In 1804 he worked as a merchant in Qeqertarsuatsiaat . In 1823 he was appointed as the successor to Christian Alexander Platou as inspector for South Greenland , but gave up the office to the same again in 1824.

family

He was the son of Johan Ernst Heilmann (1735-1800) and Karen Jensen Buch (1741-1811). He was distantly related to Vitus Bering through his mother . Bering's mother Anne Bering was the sister of Heilmann's great-great-grandmother Mette Bering. He married Frederikke Berglund (1782–1855). They had five children together:

  • Carl Christian (1807-1852)
  • Azar Tobias Arent (1810–1876)
  • Hans Niels Gedion (1814-1880)
  • Sophie Frederikka (1816–?)
  • Charlotte Frederikke (1820-1853)

All children were born in Greenland and died there. This makes Arent Christopher the progenitor of all Heilmanns in Greenland. The Heilmann family in Greenland had 610 members in the 2011 census. This makes Heilmann the sixteenth most common surname in Greenland with a share of around one percent of the country's population.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ringsted church registers (deceased 1814–1848). Page 209.
  2. ↑ H. Ostermann: Dagbøker av Nordmenn på Grønland før 1814. Part 33 (PDF, 8 MB). In: Meddelelser Volume 59, 1944, p. 191 (Norwegian).
  3. ↑ List of the rulers of Greenland at worldstatesmen.org
  4. ↑ Pedigree at noblecircles.com
  5. ↑ Names in Greenland as of 1 July 2011 at stat.gl (pdf)
personal data
SURNAME Heilmann, Arent Christopher
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish merchant and inspector of Greenland
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1781
PLACE OF BIRTH Kerteminde
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1830
Place of death Ringsted