Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Hans Egede (1686–1758) was a Norwegian Lutheran missionary, called the Apostle of Greenland. He founded Godthåb (Nuuk), the capital of Greenland. External links Hans Egede (in Norwegian) Hans Egede, «The Apostle of Greenland» The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.