EGEDE, HANS (1686-1758), Norwegian missionary, was born in the vogtship of Senjen, on Jan. 31, 1686. He studied at the university of Copenhagen, and in 1706 became pastor at Vaagen in the Lofoten islands. In 1721 he sailed to Greenland but found to his dismay that the Northmen were entirely super seded by the Eskimo. He converted many of them to Christianity, founded the colony of Godthaab and established a considerable commerce with Denmark. Ill-health compelling him to return home in 1736, he was made principal of a seminary at Copen hagen, in which workers were trained for the Greenland mission; and from 1740 to 1747 he was superintendent of the mission. Egede died on Nov. 5, 1758. He is the author of a book on Greenland (last ed. 1923, Eng. trs. His work in Greenland was continued, on his retirement, by his son PAUL EGEDE (1708-1789) , who afterwards succeeded his father as superintendent of the Greenland mission, and became professor of theology in the mission seminary. He published a Greenland-Danish-Latin dictionary (175o), Greenland grammar (1760) and Greenland catechism (1756). In 1766 he completed the translation begun by his father of the New Testament into the Greenland tongue; and in 1787 he translated Thomas a Kempis. In 1789 he published a journal of his life in Greenland.