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Mensen Ernst (* in the summer of 1795 in Fresvik on the Sognefjord , Norway , as Mons Monsen Øyri ; † probably January 22, 1843 in the Syene desert ) was a Norwegian fast runner .

Mensen Ernst has been sailing around the world as a seaman since 1813 - but probably never returned to Norway before he discovered his real calling at high speed. One of the first runs in 1819 was the 116 km route between London and Portsmouth, for which he needed nine hours. From 1820 he ran in all major cities on the European continent and won against dogs, horses and other runners.

His greatest achievement was the fast run from Paris to Moscow in 1832: Mensen Ernst started on June 11th, was locked up on the way in Russia as a suspicious stranger, was able to escape, reached his destination after only 14 days, and thus still had the 2,500 kilometers as the crow flies faster than in the agreed 15 days. In the same year, Mensen Ernst ran from Munich to Nauplia , the first capital of liberated Greece , which was then ruled by a king from the Wittelsbach family, on behalf of the Bavarian king . In 1836 it ran in 59 days from Constantinople to Calcutta and back, a distance of 8,300 km and with an average daily stage of 150 km.

The horticultural artist Prince Pückler engaged Ernst in 1841 for courier runs between his Branitz Castle (near Cottbus ) and Berlin , and when Ernst left his service, he spread the anecdote that he had sent him to explore the sources of the Nile . It remains unclear whether Mensen Ernst actually succeeded in doing this. In any case, his life track is lost. Some texts report that English tourists found his body and buried it in the Sahara south of Aswan . Other sources suspect that Mensen Ernst is identical to the "man with the wings on his feet" that African fairy tales tell.

The name Mensen Ernst was recorded in the baptismal register of the parish of Bickenriede for the assumption of a sponsorship office. This at least confirms his stay at Gut Kloster Anrode with the von Wedemeyer family .

Mensen Ernsts Leben is the subject of the German novel Rashida or Der Lauf zu den Quellen des Nils by Marc Buhl.

literature

  • Raimund Wolfert: Globetrotter and Kosmopolit: Gut zu Fuß , in: Nordeuropaforum 1996, No. 2, pp. 57–59.
  • Raimund Wolfert: Fastest pedestrian in the world , in: Official Journal of the Municipality of Anrode, No. 6/1998, pp. 6-7 and No. 7/1998, p. 5.
  • Gustav Rieck: Mensen Ernst's Leben, sea, land and fast travel in all five parts of the world. According to oral and written records. 2nd edition, Breslau 1841.
  • Newspaper for the elegant world, part 2, 1837, p.1012 Mensen Ernst's preparations on the run from Mainz to Paris
  • Bohemia: an entertainment paper. 1843, notification of the death of Mensen Ernst

Remarks

  1. ↑ Marc Buhl: Rashida or run to the sources of the Nile , calibration fount, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-8218-5747-1 , or Piper, Munich [u. a.] 2006, ISBN 3-492-24648-6 (paperback)
personal data
SURNAME Ernst, canteens
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Øyri, Mons Monsen (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian fast runner
DATE OF BIRTH 1795
PLACE OF BIRTH Fresvik on the Sognefjord , Norway
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: January 22, 1843
Place of death Syene Desert