Carl Peter Holbøll

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Carl Peter Holbøll (born December 31, 1795 in Copenhagen , † 1856 in the Atlantic ) was a Danish ornithologist , botanist , entomologist , officer in the navy and inspector of Greenland .

Life

From 1812 Holbøll was a cadet in the Navy before he was released in 1814. In 1818 he was reassigned to the Navy as a cadet and made a lieutenant in 1821 . While studying zoology at the same time , he was given a one-year leave of absence in 1822 to take part in an expedition to Greenland to investigate whaling and to collect exhibits for the Royal Natural History Museum (later incorporated into the Zoological Museum ) in Copenhagen. From June 1822 he was then in Nuuk before he came to Sisimiut in the spring of 1823 , from where he traveled to northern Greenland with Wilhelm August Graah . In November 1822 he had already extended his leave of absence to two years and so he returned to Denmark in 1824 after it had expired. His interest in Greenland was so sparked that in 1825 he retired from the Navy as a lieutenant captain and was appointed inspector of North Greenland as the successor to Johannes West . He carried out the office sensibly. So he was concerned about the prosperity and well-being of the Greenlanders, put on the education of the children and he also advocated greater self-sufficiency of the Greenlandic trade, which is why he presented a free trade agreement, which however failed. From 1828 he moved to South Greenland . He carried out his office until his death, for a total of 31 years, making him by far the longest-serving inspector in the country, but also generally the longest-serving head of state in Greenland. In addition to his political and colonial administrative work, his scientific work is of great importance. In the 1840s he wrote Ornithologiske Bidrag til den Grønlandske Fauna , which was translated into German a little later by JH Paulsen. He described, among other things, the polar siskin ( Carduelis hornemanni ), whose type epithet he named after Jens Wilken Hornemann . Its name serves as a species designation for the following animal species:

In addition, the following plant species was named after him:

Holbøll had to travel to Copenhagen in 1855 and returned to Greenland in 1856. However, his brig Baldur sank in the North Atlantic, killing all occupants.

family

Carl Peter Holbøll was the son of the gardener Fridrich Ludevig Holbøll (1765–1829) and Juliane Friderica Kompffe (1771–1801). He married Hanna Sophie Theresia Petersen (1810-1856) in Qeqertarsuaq in 1825 . Your children were:

  • Pingel Johan Carl Heger (1828–1911)
  • Johanne Sophia Ludovica (1830–?)
  • Carl Ludvig Emil (1831–1855)
  • Julie Fanny (1833-1897)
  • Adolf Viger (1835-1918)
  • Frederik Ludvig (1836-1856)
  • Emil Vigo (1837-1928)
  • Harald (1837-1919)
  • Marie Louise Caroline Catrine (1840-1922)
  • Emma Charlotte Margrethe (1843–1904)

About his son Harald is the grandfather of the politician Valdemar Holbøll .

Fonts

  • Ornithological Biddrag to the Greenland fauna. In: Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift 4, pp. 361–457. 1843.
  • a math textbook taught in Greenland for half a century.

literature

  • Biographical Appendix of The Dictionary of American Bird Names , Revised Edition, by Ernest A. Choate, The Harvard Common Press, 1985.
  • Henriksen, KL 1926: [Holboll, CP] Ent. Meddel . 15 (5) 195, portr.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography in Dansk biografisk leksikon
  2. ↑ Family tree at møllnitz.dk
personal data
SURNAME Holbøll, Carl Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish ornithologist, botanist, entomologist, naval officer and inspector of Greenland
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1795
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH 1856
Place of death Atlantic