Samuel Kleinschmidt

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Samuel Petrus Kleinschmidt (27 February 1814 – 9 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.

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Image: Photograph by J. A. D. Jensen; image courtesy of Lisbeth Valgreen, Danish Arctic Institute, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.