Zacharias Allewelt
Zacharias Allewelt (1682–1744) was a Danish-Norwegian sea captain.
Allewelt was born in Bergen in 1682.[1][2] In 1725 and 1726 he sailed the galiot Den unge Jomfrue (The Young Virgin) on a triangular route to Guinea, where he picked up a cargo of slaves and then proceeded to the Danish West Indies in the Caribbean.[1][3] He later sailed for the Asiatic Company, first as the chief officer on the Slesvig (Schleswig), and then starting in 1735 as captain of the Dronningen av Danmark (Queen of Denmark).[4] He made three journeys to Guangzhou, China.[4] There Chinese artists fired two life-size clay busts of him; one is now kept at the Aust-Agder Cultural History Center in Arendal, Norway, and the other is at the M/S Maritime Museum of Denmark in Kronborg.[4][5][6]
Allewelt married Gjertrud Andersdatter Dahll from Neskilen in Eydehavn in 1725.[1] They lived alternately in Copenhagen and at the Merdø farm on Merdø island in Arendal.[1]
He died in Copenhagen in 1744.
References
- ^ a b c d Clemmensen, Tove, & Mogens B. Mackepran. 1980. Kina og Denmark 1600–1950: Kinafart og Kinamode. Copenhagen: Nationalmuseet, p. 126.
- ^ Svalesen, Leif. 1996. Slaveskipet Fredensborg og den dansk-norske slavehandel på 1700-tallet. Oslo: Cappelen, p. 49.
- ^ L'héritage des Compagnies des Indes dans les musées et collections publiques d'Europe = The Heritage of the East India Companies in European Museums and Public Collections. 2000. Port Louis, Mauritius: Musée de la Compagnie des Indes, p. 84.
- ^ a b c Kirkebæk, Mads. 2001. The Voyage of the Dronningen af Danmark to China in 1742. An Example of the Early Danish China Trade. In: Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard & Mads Kirkebæk (eds.), China and Denmark: Relations Since 1674, pp. 21–47. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies.
- ^ Clarke, David. 2011. Chinese Art and Its Encounter with the World. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, p. 75.
- ^ Kent, Neil. 2000. The Soul of the North: A Social, Architectural and Cultural History of the Nordic Countries, 1700–1940. London, Reaktion Books, p. 353.