Travelled with a whaling expedition
to the Arctic in 1758. As far as is known, Martin only manage
to get ashore three days at Spitsbergen and made very few discoveries
of consequence.
BORN
1729, Mijntenhoffs manor, Reval,
Estonia/Russia
EDUCATION
Åbo University, Finland.
TRAVEL DIARY
His diary was first published
in 1881. Dagbok hållen vid en resa till Norrpolen eller Spitsbergen...1758.
Ymer tidskrift 1881, Stockholm 1882.
DIED
1785
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Apostle described in, for example, his travel diary, books or letters.
Modern geographical names are used. For further information see
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