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a Danish missionary, born at Grimming, near Randers, Nov. 20, 1794, was sent as missionary to Greenland about 1820, and returned to his native country in 1828. The date of his death is not known to us. Kragh wrote extensively, and translated into the vernacular of the people among whom he preached the Gospel of Christ, parts of the O.T., sermons, works on practical religion, etc. He also published in Danish and Greenlandish, Ians Egedes Aftensamtaler med sine dsciples (Copenhagen, 1837, 8vo).- Vapereau, Dict. des Contemporains, s.v.