Hans Peter Christian Møller (1810–1845) was a Danish

malacologist Malacology, from Ancient Greek μαλακός (''malakós''), meaning "soft", and λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study", is the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with the study of the Mollusca (molluscs or mollusks), the second-largest ...

and Inspector of

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. He studied at the Sorø Academy, where he studied theology and zoology. He later became a

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in the

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and traveled to Greenland to pursue his passion for malacology. While there, he wrote the ''Index Molluscorum Grönlandiae'', which described all of the mollusks native to Greenland.Eintrag
im ''Biografisk Leksikon for Grønland'' From 1843 to 1845 he served as Inspector of Colonies and Whaling in North Greenland before his untimely death in

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at the age of 34. Møller's sister Sophie married Christian Søren Marcus Olrik, who later also served as inspector.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Møller, Hans Peter Christian 1810 births 1845 deaths Danish malacologists Danish zoologists Inspectors of Greenland 19th-century Danish people History of the Arctic

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