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Didrik Pining
German privateer and nobleman (c.
– )
Didrik Pining (c. – )[2] was a German privateer, nobleman, and governor of Iceland and Vardøhus.[3]
In , researcher Sofus Larson proposed that Pining may have landed in North America in the s, almost twenty years before Columbus' voyages of discovery.[4][5] Some of the claims concerning Pining are controversial because information about him is relatively sparse and partially contradictory.[3]
Biography
Early life
Didrik Pining has been found by modern German genealogists[who?] to have been a native of Hildesheim in Germany, and this has been, according to a report, "suddenly and conclusively proved."[6] It had been assumed that he was a Dane or Norwegian until the s.[7]
In Hanseatic records until , he is mentioned as a privateer or naval captain in the service of Hamburg, charged with hunting down English merchant ships in the North A