Personal experiences with the name Jurgen: | Edit. Share what you know! Nicknames for Jurgen: | Edit. Share what you know! Meanings and history of the name Jurgen : | Edit. Share what you know! Famous real-life people named Jurgen: | Edit. Juergen JÃ¼rgen (habermas. b). 1929 A german sociologist and. philosopherrigin of the name George: Derived from the Greek geÅrgos (earthworker, farmer), which is composed from the elements gÄ (earth) and ergein (to work). From A World of Baby Names by Teresa Norman.
Leif Ericson was born in Iceland in about 970 and died around 1020. He is widely believed to have landed in North America several centuries before Christopher Columbus. Ericson supposedly founded a Viking settlement at Vinland on what is now the Canadian island of Newfoundland.
Leif Eriksson was a Norse explorer born shortly before 1000 A.D. Exploration was apparently in his family blood, as he was the second of three sons of Erik the Red, who was the founder of the first European settlement on what is now Greenland.rik the Red was the founder of the first European settlement on Greenland (986) and the father of Leif Eriksson, one of the first Europeans to reach North America.