Ludvig Fasting (1789–1863) was a

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professor, administrator, soldier, and explorer who served as Inspector of North Greenland between 1828 and 1843. During his 15-year tenure as Inspector of

North Greenland The Northern Inspectorate of Greenland also known as North Greenland was a Danish inspectorate on Greenland consisting of the trading centers and missionary stations along the northwest coast of the island. History North Greenland was established ...

he campaigned for economic and health development within the colony, and attempted to unify the Danes and the

Greenlandic Inuit Greenlanders ( kl, Kalaallit / Tunumiit / Inughuit; da, Grønlændere) are people identified with Greenland or the indigenous people, the Greenlandic Inuit (''Grønlansk Inuit''; Kalaallit, Inughuit, and Tunumiit). This connection may be res ...

through the use of both

and Greenlandic in his dispatches. Biografie
im Dansk biografisk leksikon In 1843 he resigned due to poor health and returned to mainland Denmark. His nephew was the esteemed painter Johannes Fasting Wilhjelm.

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1789 births 1863 deaths Danish soldiers Inspectors of Greenland 19th-century Danish people History of the Arctic {{Greenland-politician-stub

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