Stepan Gavrilowitsch Glotow

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Stepan Gavrilovich Glotov ( Russian Степан Гаврилович Глотов , scientific transliteration Stephan Gavrilovic Glotov * 1729 Russian Empire ; † April 23 . Jul / 4. May  1769 greg. On Unimak ) was a Russian fur trader and explorer of the Bering Strait and coastal Alaska .

Life

From 1746 Glotow is demonstrably employed in the Bering Strait as a fur trader, u. a. on behalf of the merchant Fyodor Cholodilow. From 1758 he undertook three research trips to explore Alaska in the tradition of Vitus Bering . In 1763, Glotow was the first European on the island of Kodiak , which he also gave his name to. On his last trip he died of scurvy .

proof

  1. В. N. Вolgutsev: Морской биографический справочник Дальнего Востока России и русской Америки . Ed .: А. I. Gruzdev. Ussuri Publishing House, Vladivostok 1998, ISBN 5-85832-112-7 , p. 60 (Russian, 232 p., Rusneb.ru [PDF; 250.0 MB ; accessed on July 21, 2020]).