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Pining, Didrik, -1491

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Personal name headingPining, Didrik, -1491
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Variant(s)Pining, Diderik, -1491
Pining, Didrik, active 1478-1490
Pining, Didrik, d. 1491
Pining, Dietrich, -1491
Death date1491
Found inDer Hildesheimer Didrik Pining als Entdecker Amerikas, als Admiral und als Gouverneur von Island im Dienste der Könige von Dänemark, Norwegen und Schweden, 1971: t.p. (Didrik Pining)
Wikipedia WWW site, viewed Dec. 17, 2010: (Didrik Pining; ca. 1430-1491; German privateer, nobleman and governor of Iceland and Vardøhus; some have proposed that he may have landed in North America in the 1470s, almost twenty years before Columbus' voyages of discovery; Didrik Pining has been found by modern German genealogists to have been a native of Hildesheim in Germany; likely died (was possibly killed) around Finnmark or the North Cape in 1491)
   <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didrik_Pining#cite_note-h506-15>
Wikipedia WWW site, German edition, viewed Dec. 17, 2010: (Didrik Pining, also Dietrich and Diderik; b. ca. 1428 in Hildesheim; d. 1491 in Vardø)
   <http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didrik_Pining>
OCLC, Dec. 17, 2010: (hdgs: Pining, Didrik; Pining, Didrik, fl. 1478-1490; usage: Didrik Pining)