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See also:NANSEN, HANS (1598-1667) , Danish statesman, son of the burgher Evert Nansen, was See also:born at Flensburg on the 28th of See also:November 1598. He made several voyages to the See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
White See also:Sea and to places in See also:northern See also:Russia, and in 1621 entered the service of the Danish Icelandic See also:Company, then in its See also:prime. For many years the whole See also:trade of See also:Iceland, which he frequently visited, passed through his hands, and he soon became equally well known at Gltickstadt, then the See also:chief See also:emporium of the Iceland trade, and at See also:Copenhagen. In See also:February 1644, at the See also:express See also:desire of See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:Christian IV., the Copenhagen burgesses elected him burgomaster. During his northern voyages he had learnt See also:Russian, and was employed as interpreter at See also:court when-ever See also:Muscovite embassies visited Copenhagen. His travels had begotten in him a love of See also:geography, and he published in 1633 a " Kosmografi," previously revised by the astronomer See also:Longomontanus. During the See also:siege of Copenhagen by the Swedes in 1658 he came prominently forward. At the See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting between the king and the citizens to arrange for the See also:defence of the See also:capital, Nansen urged the See also:necessity of an obstinate defence. It was he who on this occasion obtained privileges for the burgesses of Copenhagen which placed them on a footing of equality with the See also:nobility; and he was the See also:life and soul of the See also:garrison till the arrival of the Dutch See also:fleet practically saved the See also:city. These eighteen months of See also:storm and stress established his See also:influence in the capital once for all and at the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time knitted him closely to See also:Frederick III., who recognized in Nansen a See also:man after his own See also:heart, and made the See also:great burgomaster his chief See also:instrument in carrying through the See also:anti-aristocratic Revolution of 1660. Nansen used all the arts of the agitator with extraordinary See also:energy and success. • His greatest feat was the impassioned speech by which, on See also:October 8th, he induced the burgesses to accede to the proposal of the magistracy of Copenhagen to offer Frederick III. the See also:realm of See also:Denmark as a purely hereditary See also:kingdom. How far Nansen was content with the result of the Revolution—See also:absolute See also:monarchy—it is impossible to say. It appears to he See also:pretty certain that, at the beginning, he did not want See also:absolutism. Whether he subsequently regarded the victory of the monarchy and its corollary, the admittance of the See also:middle classes to all offices and dignities, as a satisfactory See also:equivalent for his See also:original demands; or whether he was so overcome by royal favour as to See also:sacrifice cheerfully the See also:political liberties of his See also:country, can only be a See also:matter for conjecture. After the Revolution Nansen continued in high See also:honour, but
he chiefly occupied himself with See also:commerce, and was less and less consulted in purely political matters. He died on the 12th of November 1667.
End of Article: NANSEN, HANS (1598-1667)
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