Johan Lorentz Mørch

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Johan Lorentz Mørch (also Mørck ; * 1783 in Frederiksberg ; † December 10, 1834 in Ilulissat ) was a Danish merchant and inspector of Greenland .

Life

Johan Lorentz Mørch was baptized on April 11, 1783 as the son of Jørgen Petersen Mørck and Cathrine Ane Elisabeth Møller. Johan Lorentz Mørch was appointed assistant in Appat in 1805 . The following year he was transferred to Qeqertarsuaq . In 1807 he became a whaling assistant in Killiit and a year later interim colonial administrator of Aasiaat . From 1809 he was a whaling assistant in Kitsissuarsuit before he was appointed the ordinary colonial administrator of Aasiaat in 1814. In 1825 he was made interim inspector of North Greenland after Nicolai Julius Rasmussen , who had also been appointed interim shortly before, died in office. In the same year he was replaced by Carl Peter Holbøll . Johan Lorentz Mørch lived with his Greenlandic housekeeper Birgithe Nielsen (1784–1870), daughter of the Danish assistant Lars Nielsen and the Greenlander Justina. Both had already had numerous children together, but the relationship was displeasing to mission and trade, which prevented marriage, which led to protests on the part of Mørch. Presumably that is why he was subsequently demoted to the position of assistant, as which he worked in Aasiaat. In 1827 he was transferred back to Kitsissuarsuit and in 1830 to Ilulissat. There he married Birgithe Nielsen on August 13, 1830, with whom he now had eight children. He is the progenitor of the Mørch family. Through his son Hans Peter Mørch (1808–1876), he was the grandfather of the first ordinary Greenlandic pastor Tobias Mørch (1840–1916). Johan Lorentz Mørch died in Ilulissat in 1834 at the age of 51.

Individual evidence

  1. a b Biography in Biografisk Leksikon for Grønland
  2. Jette Arneborg, Michael Bjørn, Mette Boritz, Mille Gabriel, Mikkel Hjorth Hansen, Karen Brynjold Pedersen, Erik Sauffaus, Louise Sebro, Stephanie Svensson, Peter Toft: Stemmer fra kolonierne . In: Nationalmuseets arbejdsmark 2018 . S. 87 ( .pdf ).