In his extensive 2014 biography of Hans Jonathan, Icelandic anthropologist Gísli Pálsson weighs the evidence and considers several possibilities. Hans Jonathan was assigned to the Charlotte Amalie, a ship named after a queen consort from a century earlier. But Hans Jonathan was uninjured, plus his captain noticed his resolve and praised him specifically in front of others. In other words, it did not matter that Hans Jonathan had never had a mainland-European-style family surname in the first place. In the last decade, with new scholarly attention from multiple angles, the full story of Hans Jonathan finally came together.