Bendt Olrik
Bendt Olrik (also Bendt Olrich ; born January 21, 1749 in Bergen , Norway ; † August 3, 1793 on Christiansborg , Accra , Ghana ) was a Danish inspector of Greenland and governor of Ghana.
Life
Bendt Olrik attended the Cathedral School mountains and down in 1768, the University of Copenhagen , where he Jura studied, but did not make the 1779 financial statements. In the same year he was commissioned with the Norwegian Johan Friedrich Schwabe to investigate whaling in Greenland. In 1782 both were finally appointed inspectors , with Olrik being responsible for the colony of South Greenland . He therefore moved with his family to Holsteinsborg, today Sisimiut , and later to Godthåb, today's capital Nuuk , where he held the office until 1789. His leadership was exactly the opposite of what Schwabe offered in the north. While Schwabe was popular with everyone and campaigned strongly for the Greenlanders, Olrik was in a bad mood, he despised the Inuit and had a very pronounced distrust of everyone, which went so far that he had certain people, especially Hans Egede's family, guarded with spies . After a three-year hiatus, he was appointed governor from June 30, 1793 in what was then the Danish colony of Guinea , which today consists of Ghana, but he died after only five weeks in office alone in Africa because his family had stayed in Denmark .
family
Bendt Olrik was born as the son of the parish priest Benjamin Olrik (1717–1763) and Elisabeth Margrethe Brix († 1801) from Askvoll . In 1782 he married Maria Hedevig Solle (1764–1799), daughter of Johan Christopher Solle (1722–1779) and Dine Beate Møller (1734–1808) in Copenhagen. The couple had no surviving offspring.
The Olrik family was originally a north German patrician family whose ancestor was the merchant Hans Oelrichs, who lived in Gdansk in the 15th century . He had two sons. The older was the ancestor of personalities such as Blanche Oelrichs , Carl Jasper Oelrichs , Hermann Oelrichs , Johann Carl Conrad Oelrichs , Johann Georg Heinrich Oelrichs and Karl Theodor Oelrichs . The younger had only one son and two grandchildren. While younger grandchildren died without descendants, the older one, Berent Oelrichs, moved from Bremen to Norway in the mid-17th century . The family split again through two of his grandchildren. The older line, which was created by his grandfather Bendt Olrich (1688–1743), comes from Bendt Olrik. His second nephew Christian Søren Marcus Olrik (1815-1870) was also a Greenland inspector from 1846 to 1866. But the family also comes from a large number of other personalities.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography in Dansk biografisk leksikon
- ↑ List of the rulers of Ghana ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at ghanagrio.com
- ^ Family Olrik in Dansk Biografisk Leksikon
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Olrik, Bendt |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Olrich, Bendt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish Inspector of Greenland and Governor of Ghana |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 21, 1749 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mountains |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 3, 1793 |
| Place of death | Accra |