About: Claus Hansen

An Entity of Type: person, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Claus Hansen (died 8 February 1706) was Governor of the Danish West Indies from 19 February 1702 until his death. Hansen started his career in the West Indies as one of the soldiers brought by Jørgen Thormøhlen on the latters lesseeship in 1690. He was promoted to ensign in 1692 by Governor . In 1699 Hansen married Anna van Ockeren, the widow of Iver Jørgensen Dyppel, son of deceased Governor Jørgen Iversen Dyppel. She died the same year, leaving him the Dyppel fortune. His legacy according to Dansk Biografisk Lexikon is the institution of the island councils.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Claus Hansen (died 8 February 1706) was Governor of the Danish West Indies from 19 February 1702 until his death. Hansen started his career in the West Indies as one of the soldiers brought by Jørgen Thormøhlen on the latters lesseeship in 1690. He was promoted to ensign in 1692 by Governor . In 1699 Hansen married Anna van Ockeren, the widow of Iver Jørgensen Dyppel, son of deceased Governor Jørgen Iversen Dyppel. She died the same year, leaving him the Dyppel fortune. Upon John Lorentz' death on 19 February 1702, the planters named Hansen as governor, whereas the colony officials decided upon . However, the Danish West India Company sided with Hansen, and he was installed in office. He died only four years later, on 8 February 1706. His legacy according to Dansk Biografisk Lexikon is the institution of the island councils. (en)
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 4718196 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 1743 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1049075986 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:after
dbp:before
dbp:title
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dbp:years
  • 1702 (xsd:integer)
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Claus Hansen (died 8 February 1706) was Governor of the Danish West Indies from 19 February 1702 until his death. Hansen started his career in the West Indies as one of the soldiers brought by Jørgen Thormøhlen on the latters lesseeship in 1690. He was promoted to ensign in 1692 by Governor . In 1699 Hansen married Anna van Ockeren, the widow of Iver Jørgensen Dyppel, son of deceased Governor Jørgen Iversen Dyppel. She died the same year, leaving him the Dyppel fortune. His legacy according to Dansk Biografisk Lexikon is the institution of the island councils. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Claus Hansen (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is dbp:after of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License