Samuel Kleinschmidt

German/Danish missionary (1814-1886) · Denmark · On the map · Writers · Died at 71

Samuel Petrus Kleinschmidt was a German/Danish missionary linguist born in Greenland known for having written extensively about the Greenlandic language and having invented the orthography used for writing this language from 1851 to 1973. He also translated parts of the Bible into Greenlandic.

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