Peter Andresen Oelrichs (26 February 1781, in

Heligoland Heligoland (; german: Helgoland, ; Heligolandic Frisian: , , Mooring Frisian: , da, Helgoland) is a small archipelago in the North Sea. A part of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein since 1890, the islands were historically possessions ...

– 18 June 1869, in

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) was a captain. He was the

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of ''Kleines Wörterbuch zur Erlernung der Helgolander Sprache für Deutsche, Engländer und Holländer'',1st Edition 184

(German, English and Dutch), Reprinted 1882 as ''Snake Jim Hollunder

German, English and French), 1882 edition republished in 1976 a vocabulary translating words spoken on the island of Heligoland into German, French and Dutch.

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