Samuel Kleinschmidt

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Holtved, Erik
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1964
• Subjects: Energy budgets; Heat transmission; Movement; Ocean currents; Sea ice; Temporal variations; Winds; East Greenland Current; Arctic Ocean; Arctic; Greenland; Lichtenau; Petersen; East Greenland; east greenland current; Godthåb; greenlander*; greenlandic; Atuagagdliutit
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66548

One hundred and fifty years ago, on February 27, 1814, Samuel Kleinschmid, the eminent Greenlandic linguist, was born in Lichtenau in southern Greenland. His father, Konrad Kleinschmidt, was a German belonging to the Moravian Brethren, who had sent him to Greenland as missionary in 1793. In 1812 Kon...