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Johannes West

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Johannes West
Royal Inspector of North Greenland
In office
1817–1825
Preceded byPeter Hanning Motzfeldt
Succeeded byCarl Peter Holbøll
Personal details
Born2 April 1782
Died11 October 1835
Copenhagen, Denmark
NationalityDanish
OccupationMerchant, 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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