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Egede was born in the vogtship of Senjen, Norway, on the 316t of January 1686.
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Hans Egedes remarkable 1770-1778 journals were first published in 1818 when the British launched their great nineteenth-century Arctic explorations and such information was in enormous demand. The coast of eastern Greenland had been virtually inaccessible to Europeans for four centuries. Egedes fascinating writings relate his determined quest for remnants of old settlements, keen observations of the Greenlandic Inuit on subjects as varied as polygamy, witchcraft, health, education, how the Inuits contact with outsiders affected this indigenous people, and previously little-known information about the geography of the islands eastern territories. After years of being out-of-print, Egedes colorful accounts are once again made available to English-speaking readers in this wonderful and timely new series, launched just as the eyes of the world are, not a moment too soon, drawn northward.
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A Description of Greenland. 355 Pages.
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Egede was born in the vogtship of Senjen, Norway, on the 316t of January 1686.
He studied at the university of Copenhagen, and in 1706 became pastor at Vaagen in the Lofoten islands, but the study of the chronicles of the northmen having awakened in him the desire to visit the colony of Northmen in Greenland, and to convert them to Christianity.
He resigned his charge in 1717 and having, after great difficulty, obtained the sanction and help of the Danish government in his enterprise, he set sail with three ships from Bergen on the 3rd of May 1721, accompanied by his wife and children. He landed on the west coast of Greenland on the 3rd of July, but found to his dismay that the Northmen were entirely superseded by the Eskimo, in whom he had no particular interest, and whose language he would be able to master, if at all, only after years of study. But, though compelled to endure for some years great privations, and at one time to see the result of his labours almost annihilated by the ravages of small-pox, he remained resolutely at his post.
He founded the colony of Godthaab, and soon gained the affections of the people. He converted many of them to Christianity, and established a considerable commerce with Denmark.
Ill-health compelling him to return home in 1736, he was made principal of a seminary at Copenhagen, in which workers were trained for the Greenland mission; and from 1740 to 1747 he was superintendent of the mission.
He is the author of a book on the natural history of Greenland. His work in Greenland was continued, on his retirement, by his son Раul Egede.
Paul Egede also became professor of theology in the mission seminary. He published a Greenland- Danisb-Latin dictionary (1750), Greenland grammar (1760) and Greenland catechism (1756). In 1766 he completed the translation begun by his father of the New Testament into, the Greenland tongue; and in 1787 he translated Thomas a Ke'mpis. In 1789 he published a journal of his life in Greenland.
(Excerpt from A Description of Greenland: Shewing the Natu...)
(Hans Egedes remarkable 1770-1778 journals were first pub...)
( This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923....)
(A Description of Greenland. 355 Pages.)
