Title Legacies of David Cranz's 'Historie von Grönland' (1765) / Felicity Jensz, Christina Petterson

Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (some color) Series Christianities in the trans-Atlantic world Christianities in the trans-Atlantic world. Contents Introduction: More than the sum of its parts: David Cranz's Historie von Grönland / Felicity Jensz and Christina Petterson -- Moravians in Greenland: Barren Shores and Fruitful Missions / Christina Petterson -- David Cranz' History of Greenland and Physico-Theology / Kathrine Kjærgaard -- "A collection of absurdities": Reception of two English versions of Cranz's book in Britain, 1767 and 1820 / Felicity Jensz -- Unbecoming Heretics: Knowledge, Missionary Stories, and the Legacy of David Cranz in North America / Jared Burkholder -- Circulation of Arctic Knowledge among German Protestants in the 18th century: The example of David Cranz's Historie von Grönland / Joanna Kodzik -- Early Meteorological Observations in Greenland: The Contributions of David Cranz, Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein and Christopher Brasen / Gaston Demarée and Astrid Elisabeth Ogilvie -- Greenland in Hungary: Inuit Culture and the Emergence of the Science of Anthropology in Late Eighteenth-Early Nineteenth Century Hungary / Ildikó SzKristof -- The Soul of the Arctic. David Cranz's account of the religion or superstitions of the Greenlanders and its impact on 19th Century descriptions of religion in Greenland / Åmund Norum Resløkken -- The "United Brethren" and Johann Gerhard König--Cranz's Historie von Grönland as an avenue to the natural history of India / Thomas Ruhland -- Cranz's Greenland as a Steeping Stone to Labrador: Tracing the Profile of the Inuit / Thea Olsthoorn -- Cranz Revisited: Greenland in Greenland / Claire McLiskey -- Appendix: David Cranz's Lebenslauf / Paul Peucker Summary This book brings together interdisciplinary scholars from history, theology, folklore, ethnology and meteorology to examine how David Cranzs Historie von Gronland (1765) resonated in various disciplines, periods and countries. Collectively the contributors demonstrate the reach of the book beyond its initial purpose as a record of missionary work, and into secular and political fields beyond Greenland and Germany. The chapters also reveal how the book contributed to broader discussions and conceptualizations of Greenland as part of the Atlantic world. The interdisciplinary scope of the volume allows for a layered reading of Cranzs book that demonstrates how different meanings could be drawn from the book in different contexts and how the book resonated throughout time and space. It also makes the broader argument that the construction of the Artic in the eighteenth century broadened our understanding of the Atlantic Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 31, 2021) Subject Cranz, David, 1723-1777. Historie von Grönland Moravian Church -- Missions -- Early works to 1800 SUBJECT Moravian Church fast Subject Missions -- Greenland -- Early works to 1800 Inuit -- Greenland -- Early works to 1800 Christianity -- Arctic regions Eskimos -- Greenland -- Early works to 1800 Christianity Inuit Missions SUBJECT Greenland -- Early works to 1800 Greenland -- History -- 18th century Atlantic Ocean Region -- History -- 18th century Subject Arctic Regions Atlantic Ocean Region Greenland Genre/Form Early works History Form Electronic book Author Jensz, Felicity, editor. Petterson, Christina, editor. ISBN 3030639983 9783030639983

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