Johannes West

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Johannes West ( April 2, 1782 , † October 11, 1835 in Copenhagen ) was a Danish inspector of Greenland .

Johannes West was appointed as the successor to Peter Hanning Motzfeldt as inspector for North Greenland in 1817 , de facto replacing Frederik Diderik Sechmann Fleischer , who had been acting as deputy since 1815 . He then headed the colony until 1825.

Johannes West had studied law. He had a sister Frederikke, who married Ole Adolf Winding in 1819, but died in Uummannaq that same year . He himself was married to Ane Elisabeth Fuchs. A daughter is known who was named Maren Cathrine and lived from 1810 to 1879. In 1831 she married the naval officer and polar explorer Wilhelm August Graah . The couple had seven children.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ after H. Ostermann: WA Graah im Dansk biografisk leksikon (Danish) born in 1771.
  2. ↑ List of the rulers of Greenland at worldstatesmen.org , accessed on June 13, 2017.
  3. ↑ H. Ostermann: Dagbøker av Nordmenn på Grønland før 1814. Part 3 (PDF 1.34 MB). In: Meddelelser Volume 59, 1944, p. 23 (Norwegian).
  4. ↑ H. Ostermann: Dagbøker av Nordmenn på Grønland før 1814. Part 3 (PDF 1.34 MB). In: Meddelelser Volume 59, 1944, p. 24 (Norwegian).
  5. ^ Family Graah / West at swedenmark.eu , accessed on June 13, 2017.
  6. ^ Klaus Georg Hansen: Graah, Wilhelm August . In: Mark Nuttall (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the Arctic . tape 2 . Routledge, New York and London 2003, ISBN 1-57958-436-5 , pp. 763–764 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
personal data
SURNAME West, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish inspector of Greenland
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1782
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1835
Place of death Copenhagen