Heinrich Rink

Heinrich Rink began his career as an administrator based at the Moravian mission at Godthaab, on the southwest coast of Greenland, in 1848. He was determined to collect legends and folk tales of Greenland natives and publish them, an ambition achieved in a five year span. Rink collected oral tales from throughout Greenland, although mainly in the southern area he administered. He was a renowned geologist, promoter of the Inuit people and scholar.