Hans Peter Christian Møller

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Møller's grave slab

Hans Peter Christian Møller (born November 2, 1810 in Helsingør , † October 18, 1845 in Rome ) was a Danish malacologist and inspector of Greenland .

Life

From 1822 to 1827 Møller was a student at Sorø Akademi , where he studied theology until 1837 . Later he was a lieutenant . Then he traveled to Greenland for the first time in 1838 and 1839 for scientific reasons. In 1840 he researched the remains of the Grænlendingar in the Ameralik fjord . In 1842 he wrote the work Index Molluscorum Greenlandiae , which lists all the molluscs in Greenland. In 1843 he was appointed inspector for North Greenland and died in Rome in 1845 at the age of only 34. Here he is buried on the Cimitero Acattolico , where the following is engraved on his tombstone:

"HS
HPC MOLLER
DANVS
NAT CAL NOVBR MDCCCX
GROENLANDIAE PRAEFECTVS
NATVRALIVM RERVM INTELLIGENS
AC RERITUS
PRAEMATVRAM OBMT MORTEM
XV A CAL NOVBR MDCCCXLV"

family

Hans Peter Christian was the son of the surgeon Joachim Otto Møller (1781–1873) and Ane Elisabeth Roholdt (1786–1856). He was survived by his father and mother and died unmarried. His sisters Sophie Agnes (1820–1862) and Margrethe Elisabeth (1812–1902) were married to Christian Søren Marcus Olrik (1815–1870), who had been an inspector for North Greenland from 1846 to 1866.

Web links

Commons : Hans Peter Christian Møller  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Peter Christian Møller at andersen.sdu.dk
  2. ↑ a b Entry in the Biografisk Leksikon for Grønland
  3. ↑ Hans Peter Christian Møller (Cand Theol) at giessinglund.dk
  4. ^ August Grisebach , Carl von Siebold , Franz Hermann Troschel , A. Wagner, Rudolf Wagner : Archives for Natural History: Journal for Systematic Zoology, Volumes 10-11. Page 30.
  5. ↑ List of the rulers of Greenland at worldstatesmen.org
  6. ↑ Family tree at hansreckweg.dk
personal data
SURNAME Møller, Hans Peter Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish malacologist and inspector from Greenland
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH Elsinore
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1845
Place of death Rome