biography
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Egede, Hans
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known as the Apostle of Greenland
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pronunciation:
[aygeduh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1686–1758)
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| biography:
| Missionary, born in Norway. He was a pastor in the Lofoten Is (1707–17), and in 1721 founded the first mission in Greenland. He then returned to Copenhagen, where he founded a seminary for training missionaries to Greenland and was appointed bishop (1740). He published the first book written in the Eskimo language (1742). |
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