DR. NANSEN DEAD.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19928, 15 May 1930, Page 11

DR. NANSEN DEAD.

■ ♦ —- FAMOUS ARCTIC EXPLORER TRIBUTES TO MIS WORK. (OJTITM) TAIBS ASSOCIATION-Bit tLBO*»ICf TBttsoftAta— copvaioiJt.) LONDON, May 13. The death has Occurred of the famous Arctic explorer and author, Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, G.C.V.0., D.Sc, D.C.L., Ph.D., F.R.G.S,, at the age of 68. (Received May 14th, 9.35 p.m.) LONDON, May 14. Dr. Nansen had been ill sine* March with phlebitis, but yesterday was attacked by paralysis of the heart and died in a few minutes. Newspapers pay a tribute to his achievements as an explorer, a Scientist and a humanitarian. The "Daily Telegranh" said that it would be found that he had no peers among the greatest Vikings. Fridtjof Nansen was born on October 10th,* 1861, near Christiania (Oslo), Norway, and studied there as well as later At Naples. In 1882 he made a voyage into the Arotio regions in the sealer Viking, and on his return was made keeper of the natural history department of the museum at Bergen. In the summer of 1888 he made att adventurous journey, accompanied by two Norweglanes and three Lapps, across Greenland from efist to west. His great achievement was the partial accomplishment of bis scheme for reaching the North Pole by letting his shio get frotsen into the ice norttt or Siberia and drifting with it in a current set towards Greenland. He started in the Fram, built for the purpose, in August. 1893, reached the New. Siberian Islands in f«ptottbe»> made fast to an ice-floe, and gradually drifted north to 84 degrees 4 minutes on March 3rd, 1895 |hfe acrorftpanied by Job*nsen, he left £**> and pushed across the lee, tha highest latitude till then obtained, 86 degrees 14 minutes north, ©ft April 7th The two wintered in Frana Joser Land and in June, 1896, met the Jack* Bon-Hnrmsworth Expedition there. Nansen arrived in Norway, followed by the Fram, via Spitsbergen. In 189? he became Professor or loology, in 1908 of oMM«»phy». and in 1918 Rector Magnificut■ at; Chn*tlania University. He had also Men Rector of St.. Andrews University since 1925. . , , ~ _ _,. He took an active part in the sepftratiort of Sweden and Norway in 1905, and from that year to 1908 he was Norwegian Ambassador at London. He did much work in connexion with the League of Nations, repatriation of prisoners' of war. relief or Russian and Anatolian refugees* and of Russian famine sufferers., He was awarded the Nobel Peace Pnae, 192122 His publications are: Across Greenland; Eskimo Life; Farthest North, 1897! The Norwegian North Polar Expedition • 1893-96. Scientific Results ', Norway and the Union with Sweden, 1905: Northern Mists, 1911; Th«J Siberia. 1914: Sportffiß Days ii l Wild Norway, 1925; Hunting and Adventure in the Arctic. 1925: Adventure and other Papers. 1927: Armenia and the Near East. 1928. He b»d written, in addition, various scientific works.