Some of the first settlers of this family name were:
Matthiessen Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
Conrad F Matthiessen, who arrived in Charleston, South Carolina in 1805 1
Matthiessen migration to Australia
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Emigration to Australia followed the First Fleets of convicts, tradespeople and early settlers. Early immigrants include:
Matthiessen Settlers in Australia in the 19th Century
Johann Gottfried Eduard Matthiessen, who arrived in South Australia in 1849 aboard the ship "Steinwaerder" 2
Contemporary Notables of the name Matthiessen (post 1700)
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Frederick William Matthiessen (1835-1918), American philanthropist, industrialist, namesake of Matthiessen State Park
Alex Matthiessen (b. 1964), American environmentalist who lives in New York City, son of Peter Matthiessen
Francis Otto Matthiessen (1902-1950), American educator, scholar and literary critic from Pasadena, California, known for his work American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman
Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), American three-time National Book Award winning novelist, naturalist, and wilderness writer
Christian Matthias Ingemar Martin Matthiessen, Swedish-born linguist and a leading figure in the systemic functional linguistics
Augustus Matthiessen FRS (1831-1870), British chemist and physicist who was awarded the Royal Society's Royal Medal in 1869
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
Matthiessen migration to the United States 
Matthiessen migration to Australia 
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