Peder Kragh

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Peder Kragh (born November 20, 1794 in Gimming , † March 25, 1883 in Øsby ) was a Danish missionary in Greenland and pastor .

Life

Peder Kragh was the son of the court owner Michael Kragh (around 1755-1832) and his wife Kirstine Pedersdatter (1767-1808). He attended a school in Randers and then studied theology at the University of Copenhagen from 1813 to 1818 . At the same time he was accepted into the Greenland Seminary in 1817. He originally wanted to be a missionary in India , but then decided on Greenland.

He was ordained on March 13, 1818 and began serving as a missionary in Aasiaat that same year . On August 20, 1819, he married in Ilulissat Anne Marie Lidemark (1797-1836), daughter of the Danish colonial administrator Caspar Gottlieb Lidemark (1758-1797) and his Greenlandic wife Eleonora Dorf (1770-1837). Peder Kragh was considered a very capable missionary who traveled a lot in his colonial district of Egedesminde. He established contact with the Danish Mission Society , which was founded in 1821 and which founded the church in Qaqortoq in 1828 . In 1825 and 1827 he made trips to Upernavik and initiated the resumption of trade and missionary activities there, which had been broken off in 1789. Peder Kragh also translated several religious works into Greenlandic. This included a large part of the Old Testament , the devotional book by Wilhelm Andreas Wexels , the religious novel Røsten i ørkenen by Bernhard Severin Ingemann and a two-volume collection of sermons that was used in Greenland until the beginning of the 20th century. He could not finish a Greenlandic-Danish dictionary.

In 1828 Peder Kragh returned to Denmark after a relatively short period of activity and was pastor in Gjerlev Sogn and Enslev Sogn the following year . On September 7, 1836, he married in Gerlev Maren Koch (1810-1879), daughter of the parcelist and blacksmith Christian Jørgen Koch (1764-1848) and his wife Ulrika Antonette Kjærgaard (1772-1824). In 1838 Peder Kragh moved to Lintrup Sogn and Hjerting Sogn as pastor . In 1850 he became pastor in Øsby Sogn . In 1881 he retired at the age of 86 and died two years later at the age of 88 at his last place of work.

He was a knight of the Dannebrog Order . His diaries were published in 1875.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d biography in Dansk Biografisk Leksikon
  2. ↑ a b Biography in Biografisk Leksikon for Grønland
personal data
SURNAME Kragh, Peder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish missionary in Greenland and pastor
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH Gimming
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1883
Place of death Øsby