Peter Andresen Oelrichs

Peter Andresen Oelrichs (26 February 1781, in Heligoland – 18 June 1869, in Amsterdam[1]) was a captain. He was the author of Kleines Wörterbuch zur Erlernung der Helgolander Sprache für Deutsche, Engländer und Holländer,[2] a vocabulary translating words spoken on the island of Heligoland into German, French and Dutch.

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  1. ↑ source: www.online-ofb.de
  2. ↑ 1st Edition 1846 (German, English and Dutch), Reprinted 1882 as Snake Jim Hollunder(German, English and French), 1882 edition republished in 1976