Jørgen Nielsen Møller (17 November 1801 – 6 July 1862) was a
Danish merchant, governor of
Holsteinsborg (now Sisimiut) and
Inspector of South Greenland.
Biography
He was the son of Niels Jørgensen Møller and Karen Rasmusdatter.
Møller studied law before working as an assistant in Nuuk, Qeqertarsuatsiaat, Paamiut, Aasiaat, Sisimiut and Qaqortoq.
Møller served as Governor of Holsteinsborg for 13 years until he replaced the Inspector of
South Greenland
The Southern Inspectorate of Greenland (), also known as South Greenland, was a Danish inspectorate on Greenland consisting of the trading centers and missionary stations along the southwest coast of the island.
History
West Greenland was divi ...
,
Carl Peter Holbøll (1795-1856), who was lost at sea returning from
Denmark
Denmark is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark,, . also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the Autonomous a ...
in 1856. He served as Inspector until the following year, when his son-in-law,
Hinrich Johannes Rink
Dr. Hinrich Johannes Rink (first name sometimes as Henrik) (26 August 1819 – 15 December 1893) was a Danish geologist, one of the pioneers of glaciology, and the first accurate describer of the inland ice of Greenland. Rink, who first came to ...
(1819–1893) replaced him.
He was married to Antonette Ernestine Constance Tommerup (1813-91). His daughter was the noted Greenland-born ethnologist
Signe Rink (1836–1909).
See also
*
List of inspectors of Greenland
References
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1801 births
1862 deaths
19th-century Danish sailors
Inspectors of Greenland
19th-century Danish businesspeople
History of the Arctic