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Hans Egede and the Danish Reoccupation and Mission to Greenland (1721–1736)

Hans Egede and the Danish Reoccupation and Mission to Greenland (1721–1736)

  1. Royal Mission College created in Copenhagen

    Labels: Royal Mission, King Frederick

  2. Egede publishes a defense of the Greenland mission plan

    Labels: Hans Egede

  3. Bergen Greenland Company organized to fund expedition

    Labels: Bergen Greenland, Bergen

  4. Egede’s small fleet sails from Bergen

    Labels: Hans Egede, Bergen

  6. Early mission work begins amid language barriers

    Labels: Hans Egede, Greenlandic language

  8. Bergen Greenland Company goes bankrupt

    Labels: Bergen Greenland

  9. Governor Claus Paarss relocates settlement to mainland

    Labels: Claus Paarss, Godth b

  10. Moravian missionaries arrive, widening Christian outreach

    Labels: Moravian missionaries

  11. Smallpox epidemic devastates western Greenland

    Labels: Smallpox epidemic, western Greenland

  12. Gertrud Rask dies after years in Greenland

    Labels: Gertrud Rask

  13. Hans Egede leaves Greenland for Copenhagen

    Labels: Hans Egede, Copenhagen

  14. Seminarium Groenlandicum founded to train missionaries

    Labels: Seminarium Groenlandicum, Copenhagen

  15. Egede made Bishop of Greenland in Denmark

    Labels: Hans Egede, Bishop of

  16. Mission publishes Greenlandic Four Gospels translation

    Labels: Poul Egede, Four Gospels