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Lorentz Fisker (1753–1819) was a Danish naval officer who charted the waters of southern Norway and the Kattegat, and organised Norwegian defences against Britain and Sweden. ==Early life== As the son of Vice Admiral Henrik Fisker, Lorentz〔Fisker's first name is spelt in the teutonic form ''Lorentz'' in most references, but in the Danish form ''Lorens'' on his gravestone. The Danish source article names him as Lorentz.〕 Henrik Fisker accompanied his father on many voyages to the Levant, gaining so much experience that, at the age of only nine years, he was listed as a volunteer cadet and at 14 years old (in 1767) was already a junior lieutenant. In 1761 Lorentz had been on board the ''Grønland'', captained by his father, on a voyage to the Mediterranean whose main purpose was to deliver members of the Royal Danish Scientific Expedition to Arabia Felix (modern day Yemen) to Constantinople. As the ''Grønland'' was passing Malta, young Lorentz fell ill and his father left him on the island in the care of some nuns. On the ship’s return Lorentz had recovered and came back on board. Thirty-five years later, in 1796, when Lorentz Fisker was himself a captain, namely of the frigate ''Thetis'', he had a tour of duty in the Mediterranean and visited Malta on many occasions. One of the nuns who had nursed him back to health was by now the Abbess, and she had delivered to the ''Thetis'' each day a silver tray of magnificent cakes. 〔The source for this story appears to be letters written by Fisker in 1796 to his wife, as recorded in Thiele’s ''Thorvaldsens Undomshistorie (1851)''〕 ;1770–71 Fisker served on the ship-of-the-line ''Sophie Magdalene'' under the Admiral Frederik Christian Kaas off Algiers. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lorentz Fisker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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