Carl Wilhelm Jessen (10 July 1764 – 30 March 1823) was a Danish naval officer and colonial administrator who served as the governor of Saint Thomas in the Danish West Indies.
Jeho učiteli byli kostelní malíři Jes Jessen v Aabenraa a Josiah Jacob Jessen ve Flensburgu, v roce 1803 obdržel stipendium a začal studovat na kodaňské akademii.
Back in the 1890s Jacob Jebsen and Heinrich Jessen left their hometown of Aabenraa in the Duchy of Schleswig (now part of the Kingdom of Denmark) and began their journey to the East to set up a trading business in Hong Kong.
The series has become part of the modern self-understanding of Danes, partly because of its successful mix of melodrama and a distinct warm Danish humour in the depiction of characters, which were portrayed by a wide range of the most…