death_date death_place birth_place image_size nationality field birth_date known_for prizes image article_title name alma_mater
15 december 1893 christiania , norway copenhagen , denmark 150px danish geology and greenlandic research 26 august 1819 founder of the first kalaallisut language newspaper silver letters -lrb- 1852 -rrb- medal , royal danish academy of sciences and hinrich rink.jpg hinrich johannes rink
 hinrich johannes rink university of copenhagen ; university of kiel
hinrich johannes rink

dr. hinrich johannes rink -lrb- first name sometimes as henrik -rrb- -lrb- 26 august 1819 -- 15 december 1893 -rrb- was a danish geologist , one of the pioneers of glaciology , and the first accurate describer of the inland ice of greenland .
rink , who first came to greenland in 1848 , spent 16 winters and 22 summers in the arctic region , and became notable for greenland 's development .
becoming a greenlandic scholar and administrator , he served as royal inspector of south greenland and went on to became director of the royal greenland trading department .
with `` forstanderskaber '' , rink introduced the first steps towards greelandic home rule .
rink carried out and printed in four volumes the first systematic collection of greenlandic oral tradition stories .
he was the founder of `` atuagagdliutit '' , the first kalaallisut language newspaper .
