Johannes West Explained

Johannes West
Office:Royal Inspector of North Greenland
Term Start:1817
Term End:1825
Predecessor:Peter Hanning Motzfeldt
Successor:Carl Peter Holbøll
Birth Date:2 April 1782
Death Date:11 October 1835
Death Place:Copenhagen, Denmark
Nationality:Danish
Occupation:Merchant, administrator

Johannes West (1782–1835), was Denmark's inspector of Nordgrønland.

He took over as inspector of Nordgrønland in 1817 after Peter Motzfeldt, even though Frederik Diderik Sechmann Fleischer had filled in for Motzfeldt in the last two years of his work, and was seen by many as his natural successor.

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