Carl Friedrich Behrens

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Carl Friedrich Behrens

Carl Friedrich Behrens (* 1701 in Rostock ; † 1750 ) was a German explorer and seafarer.

Easter Island map

Life

Rostock, then 21 years old, was the first European to set foot on Easter Island on April 9, 1722. The Mecklenburg corporal belonged to the crew of the Dutch admiral Jakob Roggeveen , who with three ships on behalf of the Dutch West India Company in search of the southern continent discovered the Polynesian island Rapa Nui on Easter Sunday, April 5, 1722 , which he "Paasch Eylandt" ( Easter Island ) called. Roggeveen himself, already over 60 years old at the time of the expedition, never set foot on Easter Island. In 1735 the travelogue by Carl Friedrich Behrens, published in Leipzig, was published, which was reprinted two years later. It was also published in French and was a successful book at the time.

Fonts

  • The tried and tested southerner. That is: detailed travel description around the world, including Canary Islands and Saltz Islands, Brazil, the Strait Magellanus and Lamer coast, Chili, and newly discovered islands to the south, the same from the Moluck Islands and various places in Asia and Africa, as well as its inhabitants, way of life, policey, trade change and worship is traded . Johann Georg Monath, Leipzig 1738. ( digitized at SLUB Dresden )
    • Reprinted under the title: The well-attempted southerner - trip around the world 1721/22 . Brockhaus, Leipzig 1923.
  • Histoire de l'Expédition de trios vaisseaux, enyoyés par la Compagnie des Indes occidentals des Provinces unies aux Terres Australes, en 1721 . 2 volumes, La Haye 1739 ( digitized at the Bavarian State Library )

literature

  • Andreas W. Daum : German Naturalists in the Pacific around 1800. Entanglement, Autonomy, and a Transnational Culture of Expertise. In: Hartmut Berghoff, Frank Biess, Ulrike Strasser (ed.): Exploration and entanglements: Germans in Pacific Worlds from the Early Modern Period to World War I . Berghahn Books, New York 2019, pp. 79-102 (English).
  • Peter Gerds: "The well-tried southerner" - The Rostock circumnavigator Carl Friedrich Behrens as the first white man on Easter Island . In: Martin Guntau (ed.): Mecklenburgers abroad. Historical sketches on the life and work of Mecklenburgers in their homeland and far away. Edition Temmen , Bremen 2001, ISBN 3-86108-772-3 , pp. 38-42.
  • 1722: Carl Friedrich Behrens - The discovery of Easter Island . In: Ulrike Keller (ed.): Travelers in the South Seas (since 1520). A cultural-historical reading book . Promedia, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-85371-224-X , pp. 38-44.

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personal data
SURNAME Behrens, Carl Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German explorer and seafarer
DATE OF BIRTH 1701
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH 1750