Chapter published in:
Learning to Read, Learning Religion: Catechism primers in Europe from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries
Edited by Britta Juska-Bacher, Matthew Grenby, Tuija Laine and Wendelin Sroka
[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition 14] 2023
► pp. 124–139

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Catechism primers in Greenland

| Ilisimatusarfik
| Independent researcher
Article outline
  • Schooling and religion in Greenland: Eighteenth to mid-twentieth century
  • Catechism primers in Greenland
    • Availability of sources & state of research
    • The first Greenlandic manuscripts and books in print
    • The first catechism primer in Greenlandic
  • Reading primers (in chronological order)
  • Secondary sources
  • Notes
Published online: 06 January 2023
https://doi.org/10.1075/clcc.14.12nie
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Reading primers (in chronological order)

[
Hans Egede] 1739 AAabcdef. [Copenhagen: Det Kongelige Vaysenhuus]. [Two copies are known, one of which is bound up with a Danish catechism primer printed 1757.] http://​www5​.kb​.dk​/e​-mat​/dod​/130020330369​.pdf (28 February 2022).Google Scholar
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Anon. c.
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[
Otto Fabricius & Carl J. O. Steenberg] 1849 ABDEFGHI. Copenhagen: I. G. Salomon. http://​www5​.kb​.dk​/e​-mat​/dod​/130021574245​_color​.pdf (28 February 2022).Google Scholar
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[
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Anon.
1878, 1891, 1903 aeiou [Samuel Kleinschmidt’s and Carl J. O. Steenberg’s alphabets; Kleinschmidt’s orthography]. Copenhagen: A. Rosenberg. http://​www5​.kb​.dk​/e​-mat​/dod​/130021574271​_color​.pdf (28 February 2022).Google Scholar
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1939, 1946 ABD. [Samuel Kleinschmidt’s orthography]. Nuuk: n. p.Google Scholar

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