Famous Danish Arctic naturalist, Greenland explorer, eskimo missonary and zoologist. He lived in a primitive eskimo camp during five and a half year from 1768 on. He made his observations helped only by a kayak, a cup and some bivalve shells used as bowls, a few hand-hold lenses and Linnaeus's Systema Naturae; later he was appointed professor of theology and titulary bishop; most well-known for his "Fauna Groenlandica" from 1780, but he also published a Greenlandic lexicon and a grammar. He corresponded much with his friend O.F. Müller.

Author of Candelabrum phrygium (Fabricius, 1780)

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