Peter Andresen Oelrichs

Peter Andresen Oelrichs (26 February 1781, in Heligoland – 18 June 1869, in Amsterdam[http://www.online-ofb.de/famreport.php?ofb=helgoland&ID=I2456&nachname=OELRICHS&lang=de source: www.online-ofb.de]) was a captain. He was the author of Kleines Wörterbuch zur Erlernung der Helgolander Sprache für Deutsche, Engländer und Holländer,1st Edition 1846 [https://www.digi-hub.de/viewer/toc/BV041107864/1/] (German, English and Dutch), Reprinted 1882 as Snake Jim Hollunder[https://archive.org/details/snakejimhollunde00oelr](German, English and French), 1882 edition republished in 1976 a vocabulary translating words spoken on the island of Heligoland into German, French and Dutch.