Maestre Anes
Maestre Anes (* around 1500; † 1542/45), also "Juan Aleman de Aquisgran" ("Hans from Aachen"), was a member of the first circumnavigation of the world under Magellan 1519–1522 and one of the 18 surviving returnees under Elcano . He circumnavigated the world again as a participant in the Loaísa expedition , making him the first German circumnavigator and the first person to have circumnavigated the earth twice.
Career
According to the team list, he came from Aachen and was the son of a "Juan Pahulo" and a "Sofia".
He was hired as a gunner (lombardero) on the Victoria and arrived back in Spain on September 22, 1522 as one of 18 survivors under Elcano.
1525 he sailed with the Loaisa expedition once again Elcano and other veterans of the first circumnavigation of the globe a second time to the Moluccas , was stranded there however 1526. 1528 were he and the rest of the crew of the Loaisa expedition from the Saavedra expedition which of Cortez from Mexico was posted. They tried to get back to Mexico via the Pacific , but failed just like the Trinidad a few years earlier and returned to the Moluccas where the team fell into the hands of the Portuguese.
Only four survivors of the Loaisa and Saavedra expedition were able to return to Europe in 1534 , among them Hans as the only one of Elcanos veterans, who was the first person to circumnavigate the world twice.
In 1542 he took part in the Villalobos expedition across Mexico to the Philippines , but died on this trip in an unknown location.
Maestre Anes (Hans von Aachen) is often confused in the older literature with Hans Varga, another German-born circumnavigator of the Magellan expedition. Another German took part in the Magellan expedition, but he died.
With two completed and one started circumnavigations of the world, Hans von Aachen was probably the most widely traveled person until Loyola's travels .
Artistic reception
Raoul Schrott made Maestre Anes the protagonist of his novel A History of the Wind .
literature
- Harry Kelsey: The First Circumnavigators. Yale University Press, New Haven 2016, ISBN 978-0-300-21778-0 , Maestre Anes on pp. 143, 151 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Raoul Schrott : A History of the Wind. From the German gunner who circled the world for the first time and then a second and third time . Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-446-26380-2 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Maestre Anes |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Juan Aleman de Aquisgran; Hans from Aachen; Hannes from Aachen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Sailors |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1500 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aachen |
| DATE OF DEATH | between 1542 and 1545 |