Magnus von Behm - Wikipedia

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages)

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources: "Magnus von Behm" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (June 2025) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Russian. (May 2023) Click [show] for important translation instructions.

Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Russian Wikipedia article at [[:ru:Бем, Магнус Карл фон]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|ru|Бем, Магнус Карл фон}} to the talk page.
For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

(Learn how and when to remove this message)

Magnus von Behm (27 March 1727, in Livonia – 9 July 1806, in Riga) was the chief commander of Kamchatka in Russia from 1773 to 1779. His wife was Eva von Borning. They had four children; Maria, Eva, Peter and Charlotte Christina.

After James Cook's death in Hawaii, the surviving commander, Charles Clerke, sailed to Kamchatka, and entrusted Cook's logbook to Behm, who saw that it was safely delivered to England, along with a cover letter describing Cooks death. The letter was how England learned the news of Cook's death since- though it arrived eleven months after Cook's death - it arrived before the ships returned.^[1]