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

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.
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.

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[Clemmensen-1] Clemmensen, Tove, & Mogens B. Mackepran. 1980. Kina og Denmark 1600–1950: Kinafart og Kinamode. Copenhagen: Nationalmuseet, p. 126.

[2] Svalesen, Leif. 1996. Slaveskipet Fredensborg og den dansk-norske slavehandel på 1700-tallet. Oslo: Cappelen, p. 49.

[3] 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.

[Kirkebæk-4] 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.

[5] Clarke, David. 2011. Chinese Art and Its Encounter with the World. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, p. 75.

[6] 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.