Hinrich Rink and Aron of Kangeq

Died in 1893

Hinrich Rink was born in Copenhagen on 26 August 1819. A geologist, he took part in the Galathea expedition, studied the glaciers of Greenland, and was then Royal Inspector of South Greenland from 1857 to 1868. He brought the first printing press there and in 1861 founded the newspaper Atuagagdliutit, which is still published. He then headed the Royal Greenland Trading Department from 1871 to 1882 and died in Christiania on 15 December 1893. Aron of Kangeq, a Greenlandic hunter born in 1822 and died in 1869, illustrated the collection.

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