Hintze, F. F. (Ferdinand Friis), 1881-

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Ferdinand Friis Hintze, Sr. (1854-1928) was born to Anders Hintze and Karen Sophie Nicolaisen in Roskilde, Copenhagen, Denmark. He and his family joined the Church in Denmark and two years later, when he was age ten, his family emigrated to Utah. He served several missions to the Northwestern States Mission and then to Scandinavia and Turkey. His most notable achievement was translating the Book of Mormon into the Turkish language along with 29,000 copies of missionary tracts. His son, Ferdinand Friis Hintze, Jr. (1881-1973) was born in Big Cottonwood, Utah and later became a professor of geology at the University of Utah.

From the guide to the F. F. Hintze papers, 1877-1993, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections)

Role Title Holding Repository
Relation Name
associatedWith Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints corporateBody
associatedWith Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Turkish Mission corporateBody
associatedWith Hintze, Ferdinand Friis 1854-1928 person
associatedWith Hintze, F. F. (Ferdinand Friis), b. 1854. person
associatedWith Hintze, Lehi F. person
associatedWith Monson, Marian Hintze, person
associatedWith Smith, Jesse Winter 1880-1978 person
associatedWith Tolman, Penny person
Place Name Admin Code Country
Cedar City (Utah)
Mannheim (Germany)
Copenhagen (Denmark)
Kassel (Germany)
Solingen (Germany)
Salt Lake City (Utah)
Big Cottonwood Canyon (Salt Lake County, Utah)
Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
Mackay (Idaho)
Omaha (Neb.)
Subject
Religion
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Missions and Missionaries
Mormonism (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
Mormons
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Birth 1881-12-08

Death 1973

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English

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