Samuel Kleinschmidt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German/Danish missionary
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Place of Birth: Alluitsoq, Kujalleq
About Samuel Kleinschmidt
- Samuel Petrus Kleinschmidt (27 February 1814ā9 February 1886) 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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