Poul Hansen Egede

Dano-Norwegian theologian

Poul Hansen Egede (9 September 1708 – 6 June 1789) who was the Superintendent of Greenland he was a theologian, missionary, and scholar who was principally concerned with the Lutheran mission among the Kalaallit people in Greenland Paul Egede died in Copenhagen in 1789, having published in that year his journal of his life in Greenland.

Poul Hansen Egede