Who established the first Danish colonial mission in Greenland in 1721?

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Hans Egede, a Lutheran missionary, founded a trading company and mission near present-day Nuuk in 1721 with permission from the united kingdom of Denmark-Norway. He'd petitioned King Frederick IV from 1711 to 1721, seeking funding to find Norse settlers and spread the Reformation. Finding no Norse descendants, missionaries baptized the Inuit instead. Denmark monopolized all trade in 1776, closing Greenland's coast to foreigners until 1950.

Who established the first Danish colonial mission in Greenland in 1721?

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