Jørgen Brønlund

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Jørgen Brønlund

Nikolaj Isak Jørgen Brønlund (born December 14, 1877 in Ilulissat , † late November 1907 at Brønlunds Grav, Lambert-Land , Greenland) was a Greenlandic polar explorer, educator and translator. He took part in two Danish expeditions to northeast Greenland.

Jørgen Brønlund was the son of the hunter Nikolaj Isak Jakob Brønlund (1831–1877) and his wife Ruth Concordia Aronsen (1839–?). He had been a friend of Knud Rasmussen , whose father was a pastor in Ilulissat (then Jakobshavn), since childhood . He took part as a dog sled driver in the Danmark Expedition 1906-1908, which ended tragically for him, the expedition leader Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen and the cartographer Niels Peter Høeg-Hagen in November 1907. Brønlund was found in 1908 on the east coast of Lambert Land at a place that is now called Brønlunds Grav ( 79 ° 9 ′ 18 ″  N , 19 ° 4 ′ 0 ″  W ). He had his diary and the Høeg-Hagens land recordings and map sketches with him.

The last entry in his diary reads:

[Am] 79-Fjord after attempting to travel home [to] home, in November. I come here with the moonlight waning, unable to go on because of frostbite on my feet and because of the darkness. The bodies of the others are in the middle of the fjord in front of a glacier (about 2½ miles). Hagen died on November 15th and Mylius about 10 days later. Jørgen Brønlund (Translated from Danish - as close to the original text as possible)

One of the most famous and beautiful poems by the Danish poet Thøger Larsen is called Jørgen Brønlund . The first stanza can be translated like this:

Never has a soul been more lonely on a star than you before death in the ice night distance.

The Jørgen Brønlund Fjord in Pearyland is named after him.

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  1. ↑ Brønlunds Grav . In: Anthony K. Higgins: Exploration history and place names of northern East Greenland. (Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin, 21). Copenhagen 2010, ISBN 978-87-7871-292-9 . (English)
  2. ^ Note from Brønlund's diary in the Danish Royal Library, Copenhagen, accessed on June 11, 2014
  3. ↑ Quaternary Geology and Biology of the Jørgen Brønlund Fjord Area. Retrieved December 25, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Brønlund, Jørgen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brønlund, Nikolaj Isak Jørgen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greenlandic polar explorer, educator and translator
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Ilulissat
DATE OF DEATH November 1907
Place of death Brønlunds Grav, Lambert Land , Greenland