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.