Didrik Pining
Didrik Pining (or Dietrich, Diderik; 1428, Hildesheim - 1491, Vardø) is a navigator and a German Corsaire with the service first of all of Hamburg, then Denmark. It obtained for its services to be named governor of Iceland in 1478. It is possible that it reached the American coasts in 1473 at the time of a voyage towards the Greenland.
Between 1471 and 1473, then in the service of Christian Ier of Denmark, it takes part in company of Hans Pothorst, originating like him in Hildesheim, and the navigator Johannes Scolvus (John Skolp), personality badly known, with a forwarding in the North Atlantic towards Greenland, during which it would have perhaps reached Newfoundland and the Labrador. Some estimate that it is about the same forwarding as that of João Vaz Corte-Real, which would have been assembled jointly by Denmark and the Portugal. Nevertheless, the voyage must be reconstituted according to scattered information and the assumption that Pining and its companions reached America twenty years before Colomb is discussed.
In its birthplace of Hildesheim, an elementary school bears its name (Didrik-Pining-Grundschule), as well as a room of the town hall.
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