Hans Pothorst
Hans Pothorst (c. 1440 – 1490)[3] was a privateer, likely from the German city Hildesheim.[1]
In 1925, researcher Sofus Larsen proposed that Pothhorst may have landed in North America, along with Didrik Pining, in the 1470s, almost twenty years before Columbus' voyages of discovery.[1][4] Scholars now view this as unlikely.[5][6][7][8]
Biography
In what little is known about Pothorst, he is often linked with Didrik Pining. Like Pining, Pothorst was likely from Hildesheim.[1] Pothorst's service on the Hamburg warship Bastian, seems to have been officially terminated on 1 July 1473.[1] Sometime in the 1470s, Pining, Pothorst and Corte-Real were sent by King Christian I of Denmark on a naval expedition to the North-Atlantic.[1] During the later years of the reign of Christian I, Pothorst and Pining are said to have distinguished themselves "not less as capable seamen than as matchless freebooters."[9]
Pothorst's home in Denmark is presumed to have been Helsingør, where his coat of arms and a simple portrait were painted (possibly shortly after his death)[3] among eight ceiling frescoes in the local St. Mary's Church. The ceiling ensemble remains one of the most celebrated 15th century Danish artworks, and if Pothorst funded its creation as it has been assumed, historians note that he must have been rather wealthy.[1]
Later, he is mentioned as a privateer, and in the Skibby Chronicle Pothorst and Pining are mentioned among many pirates who "met with a miserable death, being either slain by their friends or hanged on the gallows or drowned in the waves of the sea."[9]
See also
- Didrik Pining
- João Vaz Corte-Real
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Hughes, 2004, p. 507.
- ^ "Kalkmalerier: Kirkerummet". Øresundstid (in Danish). Retrieved 2 May 2010.
- ^ a b "Hans Pothorst". Den Store Danske Encyklopædi (in Danish). Retrieved 20 November 2010.
- ^ "Expedition to Newfoundland 1472". Medieval Histories. 2016-04-07. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
- ^ Seaver, Kirsten A. (1996). The Frozen Echo: Greenland and the Exploration of North America, ca. A.D. 1000-1500. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-3161-4. Retrieved 16 December 2022.
- ^ Jensen, Janus Møller (30 April 2007). Denmark and the Crusades, 1400-1650. BRILL. p. 181. ISBN 978-90-474-1984-6. Retrieved 16 December 2022.
- ^ Mills, William James (2003). Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. p. 185. ISBN 978-1-57607-422-0. Retrieved 16 December 2022.
- ^ Diffie, Bailey Wallys (1977). Foundations of the Portuguese Empire, 1415-1580. U of Minnesota Press. p. 449. ISBN 978-0-8166-0782-2. Retrieved 16 December 2022.
- ^ a b Nansen and Chater, 1911.
Sources
- Hughes, Thomas L. (2004). ""The German Discovery of America": A Review of the Controversy over Pining's 1473 Voyage of Exploration". German Studies Review. 27 (3): 503–526. doi:10.2307/4140980. ISSN 0149-7952. JSTOR 4140980.
- Nansen, Fridtjof; Chater, Arthur G. (1911), In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times, Frederick A. Stokes co., pp. 124–129
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