Egede, Hans, a Norwegian priest, founder of the Danish mission in Greenland, whither he embarked with his family and a small colony of traders in 1721; leaving his son to carry on the mission, and returning to Denmark, he became head of a training school for young missionaries to Greenland (1686‒1758).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Egbert * Egede, Paul