A copy of the first issue of Atuagagdliutit is housed in the collection of Norwegian artist Guttorm Guttormsgaard.
Hinrich Johannes Rink, a Dane of German descent, arrived on Greenland as a geologist in 1848. During his time with the Inutits, he came to view the Danish colonist rule as detrimental to a Greenlandic cultural identity. Rink set up a press in Nuuk, Kolonien Godthaabs Bog- og Steentrykkeri (“The Colony of Godthaabs’ Book and Lithographic Printing Press”), and in 1861 he founded the first Kalaallisut-language newspaper, Atuagagdliutit. The first issue, published on 1 January, pioneered the use of illustrations – woodcuts, drawings, even full-color watercolors.
Atuagagdliutit merged with the Danish-language Grønlandsposten in 1952, and in 2010 with the second Kalaallisut-language newspaper, Sermitsiaq.
Stern, P. R. (2004). Historical dictionary of the Inuit. In Historical dictionaries of people and cultures, vol. 2, p. 35. Scarecrow Press.
Guttormsgaards arkiv. (n.d.). Atuagagdliutit: 1. årgang: Nr. 1–4 [Atuagagdliutit: 1st vol: Nos. 1–4]. Retrieved 20 September 2026 from arkiv.guttormsgaardsarkiv.no