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Nicolai Zimmer (born January 25, 1810 in Veggerby , † May 31, 1894 in Frederiksberg ) was a Danish merchant and inspector of Greenland .

Nicolai Zimmer began studying law in Aalborg in 1829 , which he completed in 1834. In 1837 he became head of the institute in Copenhagen . From 1842 he worked as an assistant and businessman in Ilulissat , Qeqertarsuaq and Aasiaat , before he was appointed inspector of North Greenland in 1845 and worked as such until 1846.

He was the son of the priest Conrad Zimmer (1769-1827) and Elisabeth Marie Nielsen (1774-1852). His mother was the daughter of Frederikke Henriette Wagrien, illegitimate daughter of Duke Friedrich Karl of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön with his mistress Sophie Agnes Olearius. Nicolai was married to the half-Greenland woman Karen Margrethe Maria Geisler (1824-1901), who came from what is now Qasigiannguit . The couple had no children.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of the rulers of Greenland at worldstatesmen.org
  2. ^ Entry in the Biografisk Leksikon for Grønland
  3. ↑ Main list of the Zimmer family at kb.dk.
  4. ^ Church records Qasigiannguit (1777-1856) (born, baptized, deceased. P. 12.)
personal data
SURNAME Room, Nicolai
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish merchant and inspector of Greenland
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH Veggerby
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1894
Place of death Frederiksberg