Friederich Martens

Friederich Martens: Third Part Or Of The Fishes, So bey Cadiz and S-Lucas are caught in the bay or sea , pen drawing 1671. In: Hispanische Reise Beschreibung De Anno 1671 , sheet 36. Manuscript; Library of the Christianeum, Hamburg

Friederich Martens: Sea storm at night . Pen drawing 1671. In: Hispanic travel description De Anno 1671

Friederich Martens , also: Friedrich , Friderich (17th century, exact life dates unknown), was - according to his own name - a "Hamburger" who worked as a "ship barber ". He left two travelogues with numerous pen drawings of landscapes, flora and fauna from 1671 about a trip on a whaling ship to Svalbard and Greenland as well as another sea voyage to Spain .

Friederich Martens' Spitzbergische und Grönlandische Reisebeschreibung was printed in Hamburg in 1675 under the title Spitzbergische or Groenlandische Reisebeschreibung done in 1671 . This work was translated into Italian in 1680 and 1683, into Dutch in 1685, into English in 1694 and into French in 1715; it remained an important source for Arctic explorers until the 19th century.

The sea voyage to Spain remained unknown for a good 250 years; it was published for the first time and once by Wilhelm Junk in Berlin in 1925 and printed in a small edition, albeit in a smaller format and translated into current German. The manuscript -, thereof provided consisting of 62 sheets 38 with pen and ink drawings, and integrated in the makulierte parchment a medieval Choirbook side - belonged to the book collection of the Hamburger scholars Johann Peter carbon , which it in 1768 together with its library as Donum Kohlianum the Altona school academicum Christianeum gave where it is to this day.

literature

Uta Lindgren : Martens, Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 269 ( digitized version ).
Friedrich Ratzel : Martens, Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 461.
Hans Schröder (Hrsg.): Lexicon of the Hamburg writers up to the present . Volume 5. Hamburg 1870, p. 46 f.

Web links

Commons : Friederich Martens - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Friederich Martens in the catalog of the German National Library
Publications by and about Friederich Martens in VD 17 .
Friederich Martens: Hispanic journey description De Anno 1671 (to the manuscript) ; Homepage of the Christianeum, Hamburg

Individual evidence

↑ Martens' preface to the mayors and councilors of the Kays. Free of H. Röm. Imperial City of Hamburg in the Hamburg print of the Spitzberg and Greenland travel descriptions , 1675 [1] , [2] .
↑ Friderich Martens from Hamburg Spitzbergische or Groenlandische Reise Description made in 1671. Described from personal experience / the figures required for this demolished after life itself / (can be seen here in Kupffer) and now communicated through the print . Hamburg / Printed at Gottfried Schultzen's costs / In 1675. ( Digitized copy from Oxford University ).
^ Friederich Martens: Hispanic travel description de anno 1671 . Edited by W. Junk. W. Junk Berlin W 15, 1925 (paperback).
^ Marx JF Lucht: Manuscripts in the donum Kohlianum . In ders. (Ed.): Report on the royal Christianeum in the school years from Easter 1877 to Easter 1878 ( school program ). Altona 1878; P. 6 ( digitized version ).

personal data
SURNAME	Martens, Friederich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Martens, Friedrich; Martens, Friderich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hamburg travel writer
DATE OF BIRTH	16th century or 17th century
DATE OF DEATH	17th century or 18th century

[1] Martens' preface to the mayors and councilors of the Kays. Free of H. Röm. Imperial City of Hamburg in the Hamburg print of the Spitzberg and Greenland travel descriptions , 1675 [1] , [2] .

[2] Friderich Martens from Hamburg Spitzbergische or Groenlandische Reise Description made in 1671. Described from personal experience / the figures required for this demolished after life itself / (can be seen here in Kupffer) and now communicated through the print . Hamburg / Printed at Gottfried Schultzen's costs / In 1675. ( Digitized copy from Oxford University ).

[3] Friederich Martens: Hispanic travel description de anno 1671 . Edited by W. Junk. W. Junk Berlin W 15, 1925 (paperback).

[4] Marx JF Lucht: Manuscripts in the donum Kohlianum . In ders. (Ed.): Report on the royal Christianeum in the school years from Easter 1877 to Easter 1878 ( school program ). Altona 1878; P. 6 ( digitized version ).