Paul Egede (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Paul Egede (Norwegian: Poul Hansen Egede) (September 9, 1708 - June 6, 1789) was a Danish-Norwegian theologian, missionary to Greenland and scholar of the Greenlandic language.Egede was born in Kabelvag, a village in Vagan municipality on the southern shore of Austvagoy island, one of the Lofoten island group in the county of Nordland, northern Norway. He was the eldest of two sons born to Norwegian missionary Hans Egede and his wife Gertrud Rask. In 1721, the Egede family, consisting of his parents and his three siblings, relocated from Norway to Greenland. His father had been sent by the Danish government to seek the old Norse colony on Greenland. The last communication with that colony had been over 300 years earlier. No Norse survivors were found. However, he did find the Inuit and started a mission among them