Mathias Storch

Mathias Storch was born in 1883 in Manermiut, into a family of seal hunters. Trained at the seminary in Nuuk, then in Denmark from 1906 to 1908, he was ordained in 1910, the first Greenlander to be a pastor of the Church of West Greenland. Close to the peqatigiinniat revival movement, he sat in 1920 on a commission on the government of the country and in 1927 became deputy provost of the Church of Greenland. He retired in 1953 and died in Ilulissat in 1957.

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• NovelA Greenlander's DreamSingnagtugaqMathias Storch · 1914Literature