page_title: Sylt
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Sylt / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: English: Cornelius Boy Jensen (1814-1886). Danish sea captain and California politician. Member of the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors 1856-1877.
context_page_description: Sylt is an island in northern Germany, part of Nordfriesland district, Schleswig-Holstein, and well known for the distinctive shape of its shoreline. It belongs to the North Frisian Islands and is the largest island in North Frisia.
  The northernmost island of Germany, it is known for its tourist resorts, notably Westerland, Kampen and Wenningstedt-Braderup, as well as for its 40-kilometre-long sandy beach. It is frequently covered by the media in connection with its exposed situation in the North Sea and its ongoing loss of land during storm tides. Since 1927, Sylt has been connected to the mainland by the Hindenburgdamm causeway. In latter years, it has been a resort for the German jet set and tourists in search of occasional celebrity sightings.
context_section_description: Captain Dirk Meinerts Hahn (born 1804 in Westerland, Sylt – 1860) best known as the captain of the ship Zebra that he captained to South Australia
  Cornelius Jensen (1814 in Sylt – 1886) a Danish sea captain for 20 years; arriving in San Francisco in 1848, he became a rancher, a vintner and served as a California politician.
  Henriette Hirschfeld-Tiburtius (1834 in Sylt – 1911) the first female dentist in Germany
  Gustav Jenner (1865 in Keitum – 1920) a German composer, conductor and musical scholar and the only formal composition pupil of Johannes Brahms
  Hermann von der Lieth-Thomsen (1867–1942 in Syt) a German military aviation pioneer, lived in Sylt from 1928
  Margarete Boie (1880–1946) a German author in the 1920s incorporating the history, landscape and people of Sylt
  Anita Rée (1885–1933) a German-Jewish painter, lived and worked here
  Boy Lornsen (1922 in Keitum – 1995) a German sculptor and author of children's literature
  Dora Heldt (born Bärbel Schmidt, 1961 in Sylt) a German author
caption: Cornelius Boy Jensen, 1814–1886
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