Johannes Andersen (farmer)
Johannes Andersen (born March 25, 1760 in Nuuk , † September 12, 1825 in Igaliku ) was a Greenlandic farmer .
Life
Johannes Andersen was the youngest son of the Danish merchant and Greenland pioneer Anders Olsen (1718–1786) and his wife Tuperna (1726–1789). He was born in Godthaab Colony, but when his father founded Julianehaab Colony (now Qaqortoq ), the family moved to South Greenland. Sheep, goats and chickens were kept there. In 1780 his father retired as colonial administrators and the family settled in Igaliku in 1782, where they ran agriculture. In the same year, on August 19, Johannes married 19-year-old Dorthea Johanne Kleist, daughter of the cooper Christian Larsen Kleist († 1787) and his wife Else Simonsdatter († 1791). The missionary in the colony had more animals imported from Denmark and Johannes Andersen ran the farm in Igaliku for his father, who died soon afterwards, making him the first farmer in Greenland since the Middle Ages. He mainly kept cattle and thus supplied the colony with meat, butter and cheese. After the death of his wife, he married the Greenlandic Cicilia on October 22nd, 1809. From his two marriages he had a large number of children who took the name Egede, and he was thus the progenitor of the important South Greenlandic Egede family, whose heads are known as the "kings of Igaliku".
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography in Dansk Biografisk Leksikon
- ^ Kristen Nielsen Christensen: Anders Olsen og hans slægt in the Tidsskriftet Grønland (1953/4)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Andersen, Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greenlandic farmer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1760 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuuk |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 12, 1825 |
| Place of death | Igaliku |