Hans Egede Saabye

Biography:

Hans Egede Saabye was a Danish priest and a missionary to Greenland. He was born in July 1746 on the island Strynø in southern Denmark the son of priest Jørgen Saabye and Petronella Egede. Petronella was one of the daughters of Hans Egede the apostle of Greenland whose Bergen Company had begun the Danish settlement there in 1721. He graduated from Roskilde secondary school in 1764 and got a degree in theology in 1767.