Egede
Egede names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below. 1 of them is described by more than one encyclopedia.
Egede Hans, a'ge-de
Described by 2 of the 6 encyclopedias.
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
Hans, a'ge-de, (1686-1758), a Danish missionary, termed the Apostle of Greenland. He was born in Senjen, Norway, and died in the Island of Falster, Denmark. He was educated for the Lutheran ministry, but obtained a commission from the Danish government to convert the Eskimos of Greenland to Christianity. With this purpose he and his two boys took up their residence among the tribes on the coast of Greenland and accompanied them in their hunting expeditions. He resided among the Eskimos fifteen years, studying the language, healing the sick, and relieving the miseries of the natives in a thousand ways. He made long trips to reach the isolated villages, and, though discouraged by the small number of actual converts, he won the confidence of the natives to an extent not previously attained. Trading ships visiting the coast in the summer time kept Egede in communication with the world. He received packages of books and papers, clothing and medicines, and sent his sons home for a time to be educated. In 1736 he left the mission work to his son Paul and returned to Denmark. Paul remained among the Eskimos until 1740, when he, too, returned to Denmark, where he received the title of "Bishop of Greenland." Father and son worked together in the preparation of an Eskimo dictionary and grammar, and in the translation of the Gospels into the Eskimo language. They wrote several volumes of experiences, valuable for their contribution to natural history and a knowledge of the Greenland Eskimo.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HANS (ā'ge-de), the apostle of Greenland; was born in 1686 in Norway. In 1721 he set sail for Greenland with the intention of converting the natives to Christianity, and for 15 years performed the most arduous duties as missionary, winning by his persevering kindness the confidence of the natives. is hatched outside are called oviparous, In 1736 he returned to Copenhagen, where he was made a bishop and director of the Greenland missions. He died in 1758. His son, PAUL
Egede born in 1708
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
born in 1708, followed in his father's footsteps, became Bishop of Greenland , and died in 1789.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
The facts of Hans Egede's life given by Aiton's in 1910 and Collier's in 1921 still hold: born 1686 in Norway, sailed for Greenland in 1721, fifteen years among the Inuit, home to Denmark in 1736, dead in 1758, with his son Paul carrying on the work and the Greenlandic dictionary and Gospel translations. What has changed utterly is how that work is judged. The mission station Egede founded became Godthaab and is now Nuuk, capital of a Greenland that won home rule in 1979 and self-government in 2009, and in June 2020 his statue above the town was daubed with the word "decolonize" and made the subject of a local vote on whether it should stand. Where the older accounts saw only "persevering kindness" and the relief of misery, Greenlanders today also weigh the Danish colonial order that arrived with him, and the smallpox epidemic of 1733-34 that swept the coast during his mission.
Written for this edition, 2026.