ESKIMO LANGUAGE. 



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Kleinschmidt (S. P.) — Cnntiimed. 



Silame iliornerit . . . S. Klciii- 



schmidt. 



Nungme [GocltliAab], 1859. * 



128 pp. 8°. History of the world iu GiCin- 

 land Eskimo. Title from Dr. Rink. 



Reuseignements sur les premiers ha- 

 bitants de la c6te occideutalo du Green- 

 land. Trad, en groeulandais par S. 

 Kleiuschruidt. 1864. * 



4°. Picked-up title. I have seen reference 

 in Kink's D.inish-Greenland to Kleiuschinidt's 

 Sinorissap kavdlaiuikarflligtA, 18GG, which i.s 

 po.ssibly the above work, as the map t^ivt-u liy 

 Riuk is taken from it. 



Den I Gr0uland8ke Ordbog, | oniar- 



beidet | af | Sam. Kleinschmidt; | ud- 

 given I paa Foraustaltning af Minis- 

 teriet for Kirke- og Underviisningsv;!'- 

 senet og nied | det kouge]igo daiiske 

 Videuskaberues SeLskabs Underst^At- 

 telse I ved | H. F. J0rgen8eii. | 



Ki^beuhavu. | Louis Kleins Bogtrj^k- 

 keri. | 1871. 



Title 1 1. pp. iii-x, half-title 1 1. text pp. 1-460, 

 in double columns, arranged alphabetically by 

 Greenland words, 8°. 



Copies seen : Briti.sh Museum, Congress, 

 Eames. 



Priced by Leclerc, Supplement, No. 2814, at 

 12 fr. ; by Koehler, catalogue 440, No. 960, at 7 

 M. 50 pf. 



Terms of Relationship of the Eskimo, 



Greeulandj collected by Samuel Klein- 

 schmidt, Godthaab, Greenland. 



Ill Morgan (L. H.), Systems of Consanguin- 

 ity and Affinity, pp. 293-382, "Washington, 1871, 

 4°. 



Samuel Petrus Kleinschmidt, the son of a 

 missionary, was bom at Lichtenau, Greenland, 

 February 27, 1814, and died at Godhaven, Green- 

 land, February 8, 1886. In 1823 ho was taken 

 to the school of Kleinwelko, Saxony. From 

 1828 to 1836 he served as apothecary's appren- 

 tice in Zeist, Holland, and from 1836 to 1840 as 

 school teacher at Christiansfeld, Sle.svig. In 

 1840 he returned to Greenland, and was ap- 

 pointed in the missionary service of the Mora- 

 vians, acting as teacher at the seminary ^rom 

 1859. Since 1860 he has had a printing-press in 

 his house, and has printed with his own hands 

 several books in Greenlandish, school books in 

 history, geography, and church history, and 

 especially a large part of the Old Testament, 

 but only a limited number of cojiies, nierelj' in- 

 tended for the use of the revisers of his new 

 translation. Finally, he has published a new 

 edition of the New Testament, printed at Bu- 

 dissin. Saxony." — Rink. 



"A new impetus was given to the study of 

 the Greenland tongue by Coiirad [sic] Klein - 



Kleinschmidt (S. P.) — Continned. 



Schmidt, a man of varied talents. He intro- 

 duced an improved system of orthography, 

 which had regard to the derivations of the 

 words and has been adopted by all the Green- 

 land mi.ssionaries, including tho.se of the Dan- 

 ish church, and discarded as a model the Latin 

 grammar, which had been painfully followed 

 by all his predecessors, treating the Greenland 

 tongue according to its own peculiar idioms 

 and the existing forms of its words. His gram- 

 mar of the Greenland language appeared at 

 Berlin in 1851 and his Greenland-Danish lexi- 

 con at Copenhagen at a later time. Ho wrote 

 also several school books, among them a ge- 

 ography and a natural history, both of which 

 gave him abundant opportunities to construct 

 new words and formulate new terms for many 

 things unknown to the Greenlanders. The 

 most important of his undertakings was a ver- 

 sion of the Old Testament, upon which he be- 

 stowed extraordinary care and which, by thi.s 

 time, must be nearly, completed. On a press 

 presented by the church at Zeist, iu Holland, 

 he printed with his own hands a small edition 

 of this work, as far as completed, for the bene- 

 lit merely of the missionaries. The use of this 

 press was cheerfully granted him, even after 

 be h.ad joined the D.anish mission and h.ad been 

 appointed director of the seminary at Godt- 

 haab." — Eeichelt. 



Kleinschmidt's father, also a mi.ssiouary to 

 Greenland, was named John Conrad; hence 

 the mistake probably in the above quotation. 



[Kohlmeister (Benjamin Gottlieb).] Ta- 

 medsa | Johannesib Aglangit, | okant- 

 sifiik Tus,s.aruertnfiik, | Jesu.se Kristuse- 

 mik, I Gudim Erngninganik. | Printed 

 for I the British and Fonngn Bible So- 

 ciety ; I For the use of the Christian 

 Esquimaux in the Mission-Settlements 

 I of the United Brethren at Nain, Ok- 

 kak, and Hopedale, | on the Coast of 

 Labrador. | 



Londonneme: | W. M'Dowallib, Neni- 

 lanktangit. | 1810. 



Literal translation: Hero .are | John's his 

 writings | about the words pleasant to hear | 

 about Jesus Christ | about God's his Son. | At 

 London: | W. M'Dowall's, his printings. 



Title verso blank 1 1. pp. 1-124, 12'^. Gospel 

 of John in the language of Labrador. 



Copies seen: Shea. 



A copy at the Field sale. No. 643, brought 

 $1.50; another, No. 2321, 87 cents. The Mur- 

 phy copy. No. 2914, morocco, giltedges, brought 

 $2.25. 



"After the successful e.stablishment of a mis- 

 sion station in Labrador iu 1771, the Moravian 

 mis.sionaries addressed themselves in the first 

 instance to the preparation of a harmony of the 

 Gospels for the Esquiniaux of Labrador. M.any 

 years were spent iu revising :iu(l correcting this 



