Christian Jacobsen Drakenberg var en norskfødt dansk sømand, der ifølge egne oplysninger var født 18/11 - 1626 og døde 9/10 - 1772 og blev derfor næsten 146 år gammel!
Drakenberg blev angiveligt født i Skee i Bohuslän, der indtil 1658 hørte til Norge. Faderen, Jacob Drakenberg, var kaptajn, og sønnen stod til søs som 13-årig. Han var underofficer i marinen (til sidst højbådsmand) og deltog som sådan efter sigende i Frederik 3.s, Christian 5.s og Frederik 4.s krige mod Sverige. Mellem disse krige var han beskæftiget med udenlandsk koffardifart. I 1694 blev han efter eget udsagn fanget af algierske sørøvere og måtte derfor fra sit 68. til 83. år trælle i slaveri på Cypern, i Aleppo og i Tripolis. Da han endelig undslap tog han tilbage til Danmark og gik endnu engang med i krig mod Sverige (Den Store Nordiske Krig).
Portræt af Christian Jacobsen Drakenberg, malet af C.G. Pilo i 1741
Først omkring 1722 opgav han livet som sømand, og opholdt sig nu i København og på herregårde i Jylland, bl.a. Ørslevkloster, Allinggård, Engelsholm, Bygholm og Aakjær. Da det ikke var alle, der troede på hans høje alder, gav han sig i en alder af angiveligt 102 til sit fødesogn og vendte tilbage med en udskrift af kirkebogen.
Da Drakenberg angiveligt var 111 år gammelt giftede han sig med en skipperenke. Hun døde imidlertid før Drakenberg og som angiveligt 132-årig friede han igen, men uden succes. Omkring 1760 flyttede han til Aarhus og indlogerede sig hos Karens Jensdatter i dette hus, Fiskergade 82. Aarhus blev også stedet, hvor han døde, og hvor hans mumieagtige lig indtil 1840 lå til skue i Laurids Ebbesens Kapel i Aarhus Domkirke. Da Dronning Caroline Amalie under et besøg i domkirken forlangte, at han blev begravet, blev Drakenberg flyttet til kirkens krypt. Ved en restaurering af Aarhus Domkirke i 1998 lykkedes det dog hverken at finde rester af Drakenberg eller kisten.
Drakenberg var noget af en berømthed i sin egen tid, men det stoppede ikke der. Som sagt lå han til skue i Aarhus Domkirke, men selv flere år derefter kunne han fascinere. Særligt var den århusianske skibsprovianteringshandler Sophus E. Johnsen (1869-1950) voldsomt optaget af Drakenberg. Johnsen kaldte således sin ejendom i Havnegade for Drakenberghus, og på hvad der angiveligt var 300-årsdagen for Drakenbergs fødsel holdt han en stor fest og fik opsat denne mindeplade for Drakenberg på huset i Fiskergade, hvor Drakenberg havde boet. En gammel levnedsskildring fra 1774 fik han optrykt og oversat til svensk, engelsk, tysk og hollandsk. Han oprettede også ligefrem et Drakenberg-museum og udgave i nogle få år Drakenberg-Posten. En Drakenberg-orden blev det også til, og Johnsen tildelte den bl.a. til Winston Churchill og Vera Lynn.
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Christian Jacobsen Drakenberg was a Norwegian-born Danish sailor who, according to his own information, was born 18/11 - 1626 and died 9/10 - 1772 and was therefore nearly 146 years old!
Drakenberg was allegedly born in Skee in Bohuslän, which until 1658 belonged to Norway. His father, Jacob Drakenberg, was a captain, and the son went to sea at the age of 13. He was a non-commissioned officer in the navy (eventually a tall-boat man) and as such reportedly took part in Frederik III's, Christian V's and Frederik IV's wars against Sweden. Between these wars he was engaged in foreign trunk shipping. In 1694, according to his own statement, he was captured by Algerian pirates and therefore from the age of 68 to 83 had to be enslaved in Cyprus, in Aleppo and in Tripolis. When he finally escaped, he went back to Denmark and once again joined the war against Sweden (The Great Nordic War).
Only around 1722 did he give up life as a sailor, and now stayed in Copenhagen and on manors in Jutland, i.a. Ørslevkloster, Allinggård, Engelsholm, Bygholm and Aakjær. Since not everyone believed in his old age, he went to his native parish at the age of 102 and returned with a copy of the church register.
When Drakenberg was allegedly 111 years old, he married a skipper's widow. However, she died before Drakenberg and, allegedly at the age of 132, he proposed again, but without success. Around 1760 he moved to Aarhus and lodged with Karen's Jensdatter in this house, Fiskergade 82. Aarhus also became the place where he died, and where his mummy-like body lay on display in Laurids Ebbesen's Chapel in aarhus Cathedral until 1840. When Queen Caroline Amalie, during a visit to the cathedral, demanded that he be buried, Drakenberg was moved to the church's crypt. During a restoration of Aarhus Cathedral in 1998, however, it was not possible to find any remains of Drakenberg or the coffin.
Drakenberg was something of a celebrity in its own time, but it didn't stop there. As I said, he was on display in Aarhus Cathedral, but even several years later he could fascinate. In particular, the Aarhusian ship's provisioning dealer Sophus E. Johnsen (1869-1950) was intensely interested in the Drakenberg. Johnsen thus called his property in Havnegade Drakenberghus, and on what was supposedly the 300th anniversary of Drakenberg's birth, he held a big party and had this commemorative plaque erected for Drakenberg on the house in Fiskergade, where Drakenberg had lived. He had an old biography from 1774 printed and translated into Swedish, English, German and Dutch. He also directly created a Drakenberg museum and published for a few years the Drakenberg-Posten. A Drakenberg Order was also created, and Johnsen awarded it, among other things. to Winston Churchill and Vera Lynn.
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