Jørgen Nielsen Møller (17 November 1801 - 6 July 1862) was a
Danish
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merchant, governor of
Holsteinsborg
Sisimiut (), formerly known as Holsteinsborg, is the capital and largest city of the Qeqqata municipality, the second-largest city in Greenland, and the largest Arctic city in North America.The term 'city' is loosely used to describe any popula ...
(now Sisimiut) and
Inspector of South Greenland.
Biography
He was the son of Niels Jørgensen Møller and Karen Rasmusdatter.
Møller studied law before working as an assistant in Nuuk, Qeqertarsuatsiaat, Paamiut, Aasiaat, Sisimiut and Qaqortoq.
Møller served as Governor of Holsteinsborg for 13 years until he replaced the Inspector of
South Greenland
The Southern Inspectorate of Greenland also known as South Greenland was a Danish inspectorate on Greenland consisting of the trading centers and missionary stations along the southwest coast of the island. Its capital was at Godthaab (modern Nuu ...
,
Carl Peter Holbøll
Carl Peter Holbøll (1795–1856) was an officer in the Danish Royal Navy, Greenland colonial officer and explorer of the Greenlandic fauna.
Holbøll served as Royal Inspector of Colonies and Whaling in North Greenland (1825–1828), then Inspec ...
(1795-1856), who was lost at sea returning from
Denmark
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in 1856. He served as Inspector until the following year, when his son-in-law,
Hinrich Johannes Rink
Dr. Hinrich Johannes Rink (first name sometimes as Henrik) (26 August 1819 – 15 December 1893) was a Danish geologist, one of the pioneers of glaciology, and the first accurate describer of the inland ice of Greenland. Rink, who first came to ...
(1819–1893) replaced him.
He was married to Antonette Ernestine Constance Tommerup (1813-91). His daughter was the noted Greenland-born ethnologist
Signe Rink
Nathalie Sophia Nielsine Caroline Rink née Møller (24 January 1836 – 19 April 1909) was a Danish writer and ethnologist. Together with her husband Hinrich, she founded Greenland's first newspaper, '' Atuagagdliutit'', in 1861. She is credite ...
(1836–1909).
See also
*
List of inspectors of Greenland
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Royal Inspector was the highest ranking colonial officer in Danish Greenland 1782–1924. They were agents of the Royal Greenland Trading Department established by its Instruction of 1782 and reported to the Board of Managers of the comp ...
References
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1801 births
1862 deaths
Danish sailors
Inspectors of Greenland
19th-century Danish people
History of the Arctic