Jörgensen Jörgensen, “Dog King" of Iceland, brother of famed #watchmaker Urban Jürgensen, died on January 20, 1841 at the age of 60. A few years earlier, fellow convicts memorialized him, carving likenesses of the king and his queen on the Ross Bridge over the Macquarie River.

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As his brother Urban became #watchmaker to the Danish royal court, Jörgen Jörgensen spiraled through years of gambling, drinking, and debtors’ prisons, with interludes as a soldier in Spain, a spy for British intelligence, and a failed gambler in Paris.

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