Carl Frederik Wandel

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Carl Frederik Wandel

Carl Frederik Wandel (born August 15, 1843 in Copenhagen ; † April 21, 1930 ibid) was a Danish naval officer , oceanographer and author . He led the Danish Ingolf expedition from 1895–1896.

Life

Military career

Carl Frederik Wandel 1864
Map of the Ingolf expedition

In 1857 he joined the Danish Navy as a cadet and was promoted to Vice Admiral by 1905 . In 1864 he took part in the German-Danish war on the tank schooner Absalon of the Danish Baltic Sea Squadron . From 1867 to 1869 he was in French service on the liner La Magellan during the intervention in Mexico . On the frigate Sjælland he sailed in the Mediterranean from 1869-1870 and took part on November 17, 1869 at the opening ceremony of the Suez Canal . He was first involved in surveying work - initially in Danish waters - in 1871 as vice-commander on the steamship Ægir , and again in 1874 on the gunboat Marstrand . Wandel took his first command from 1876 to 1878 on the schooner Diana . In 1879 he went to Iceland as vice-commander on the schooner Ingolf . He then made suggestions for exploring the unknown east coast of Greenland and the Denmark Strait . From 1881 to 1886 Wandel worked in the Navy Ministry, but had several commands at the same time. He then continued his surveying work until 1888 as commander of the gunboat Grønsund . From 1889 to 1899 he was director of the nautical chart archive. In 1889, Wandel led the schooner Fylla's marine research expedition to Iceland and West Greenland. In the following two years he carried out surveys in Icelandic waters with the schooner Ingolf . In 1894 he commanded the ironclad Helgoland . In the summer months of 1895 and 1896, Wandel led the Ingolf expedition in the North Atlantic, the first Danish deep-sea expedition. From 1898 to 1899 he commanded the corvette Fyn on her voyage into the Mediterranean. From 1901 to 1908 he was a member of the Defense Council and from 1905 he was chief of the naval officer corps. From 1908 to 1911 he was chairman of the Supreme Military Court. From 1909 he was Inspector General of the Danish Navy. In 1911 he was retired.

Membership in scientific commissions

From 1890 to 1902, Wandel was chairman of the “Commission for the Scientific Research of Danish Waters” (kommission til videnskabelig undersøgelse af de danske farvande) and from 1890 a member and from 1895 president of the “Commission for the management of geological and geographical surveys in Greenland” (commission for ledelsen af ​​de geologiske and geografiske undersøgelser in Greenland). from 1914 to 1927 he was President of the Royal Danish Geographical Society.

Author activity

During his military service, Wandel published works on oceanography and part of the Ingolf expedition's report. In retirement, he mainly followed his interest in history . Among other things, he published books on sea ​​warfare in the Danish-Norwegian waters from 1807 to 1814, on Denmark's relationship to the barbarian states from the mid-18th to the mid-19th century, and on Danish trade relations with the Levant in the 18th century Century.

Familiar

Carl Frederik Wandel was the son of the sales representative and later wholesaler Carl Frederik Theodor Wandel (1800–1876) and his wife Ane Frederikke, b. Thorsen (1819-1906). He was married to Inger Marie Jensen (1867–1960) since October 5, 1901. His brother Oscar Andreas Wandel (1845–1925) took over his father's wine trading company Carl Wandel & Søn . He was a member of the wholesalers' committee from 1907 to 1920 and a judge at the Maritime and Commercial Court between 1894 and 1916. Oscar's son Sigurd Wandel (1875-1947) was director of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1940 to 1943 .

Honors

Carl Frederik Wandel received the following medals and orders:

Several geographical objects have been named after Carl Frederik Wandel by various Danish expeditions, including the Wandelsee , a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean , Cape Wandel and the Wandelfjord in East Greenland, and the Wandeltal in northern Greenland. The name of the Wandel Peaks on Booth Island in the Wilhelm Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula also reminds of him.

Works (selection)

  • Bemærkninger til beseilingen af ​​Iceland's kyster (1879)
  • En Fremdstilling af vor kjendskab til Grøonlands øostkyst sampt de med skonnerten "Ingolf" i 1879 foretagne undersøogelser i Danmarksstraedet (1883)
  • Iistidens Betydning for vore Farvande (1888)
  • Om de hydrographiske forhold i Davisstrædet (1893)
  • The Danish Ingolf Expedition . Report of the voyage . Volume I.1, pp. 1-21; Current bottles . Volume I.4, pp. 1-5 (1899)
  • Søkrigen i de Dansk-Norske farvande 1807–14 from tabet af flaaden to freden i Kiel (1915)
  • Danmark og Barbareskerne, 1746-1845 (1919)
  • Nogle livserindringer (1923)
  • Danske handelsforsøg paa Levanten i det attende aarhundrede (1927)
  • Carsten Niebuhr's Rejse i Yemen eller det Lykkelige Arabia, 1762–1763 (1929)

literature

  • Change, Carl Frederik . In: Johannes Brøndum-Nielsen, Palle Raunkjær (ed.): Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon . 2nd Edition. tape 24 : Tyskland – Vertere . JH Schultz Forlag, Copenhagen 1928, p. 489 (Danish, runeberg.org ).

Web links

Commons : Carl Frederik Wandel  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Østgrønlandske Stednavne - Fra den første kortlægning . (PDF; 9.54 MB) on the website of the Danish Arctic Institute (Danish)
  2. ↑ Change Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
personal data
SURNAME Change, Carl Frederik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish naval officer, oceanographer and author
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1930
Place of death Copenhagen