Karl Wilhelm Frank

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Karl Wilhelm Frank (also Carl Wilhelm Francken ; born September 4, 1797 , † after 1878 ) was a German seaman and Protestant clergyman.

Life

Karl Wilhelm Frank was a son of Bernhard Olivier Frank , pastor in Bobbin on Rügen . He chose the nautical profession at an early age and later entered the service of the British East India Company . In 1818 he distinguished himself in the shipwreck of the Cabalva in the Indian Ocean . He drove in an open cutter several hundred nautical miles from the Cargados Reef to Mauritius to get help for the survivors of the shipwreck who were left on a coral reef . He wrote a book about the loss of the Cabalva , which was published in 1819. It was translated into German in 1821 and Swedish in 1824 . The text was later included in the third volume of the series "Des Junge Feldjäger war comrade". In 1835 Frank was the captain of Roxburgh Castle .

After the end of his seafaring career, he studied theology at Cambridge University and, after being ordained a priest of the Church of England by the Bishop of Norwich in June 1844, he was pastor of the Evangelical-Lutheran German-Danish seafaring community in Hull . At his personal request, at the end of the 1840s, the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV granted financial support to the community. In 1851 he held Anglican services in German in London during the Great Exhibition . In 1854 he took over a pastorate in Wicken in the English county of Cambridgeshire and stayed there until 1869. In retirement he lived in the county of Sussex .

Fonts

  • A narrative of the loss of the honorable East India Company's ship, Cabalva, which was wrecked, on the morning of July 7, 1818, upon the Cargados Garragos Reef, in the Indian Ocean . By CW Francken, Sixth Officer, Black and Co., London 1819.

literature

  • Adolf Häckermann:  Frank, Bernhard Olivier . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 247 f. (Mentioned by his father Bernhard Olivier F.)
  • Frank, Karl Wilhelm . In: Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania? A dictionary of persons . Edition Temmen, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-86108-282-9 , p. 136.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Yearbook for the German Book Art and Map Trade 1821 , p. 420
  2. ↑ Entry  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the Karlskrona library@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / mikromarc.karlskrona.se  
  3. ^ Jenaische Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung . No. 35, February 1827, pp. 278–279 ( digitized version )
  4. ↑ CW Francken  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Families in British India Society (English)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.search.fibis.org  
  5. ^ The Christian Remembrancer 1844
  6. ↑ A Handbook to the Places of Public Worship in London . London 1851
  7. ^ Wicken - Church at British History Online
  8. ↑ Brief review in F. Jefferies: The Gentleman's Magazine . 1819, p. 154. ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Frank, Karl Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frank, Wilhelm; Francken, Carl Wilhelm; Francken, CW
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German seaman and evangelical clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1797
DATE OF DEATH 19th century