Author:Hans Egede

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Hans Egede
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"Dano-Norwegian Lutheran missionary who launched mission efforts to Greenland, which led him to be styled the Apostle of Greenland. He established a successful mission among the Inuit and is credited with revitalizing Dano-Norwegian interest in the island after contact had been broken for about 300 years. He founded Greenland's capital Godthåb, now known as Nuuk."—Wikipedia

Hans Egede

Works

Works About Egede

  • Lives of Eminent Missionaries, Chapter "Hans Egede" (1833) by John Carne
  • Lives of Missionaries, Greenland (1859), published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
  • "Egede, Hans," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
  • Hans Egede, Colonizer and Missionary of Greenland (1952) by Louis Bobé
  • To Greenland's Icy Mountains (1968) by Eve Garnett


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