Christiane de Roepstorff

Hedevig Christiane Willemoes was born 30 November 1843 in Copenhagen to Niels Willemoes (1792–1860), an accountant, and Margrethe Magdalene Rostrup (1804–1880).^[1][3] On 5 May 1844, De Roepstorff was baptised in Holmen Parish [da].^[3]

On 11 January 1872, De Roepstorff married Frederik Adolph de Roepstorff, a philologist and writer, whilst he was on home leave from the Nicobar Islands.^[1][4][5]

The couple later returned to the Nicobar Islands where De Roepstorff worked for the islands Christian mission.^[1] Following her husband's murder in 1883, De Roepstorff posthumously published and edited A Dictionary of the Nancowry Dialect of the Nicobarese Language and The Gospel of Matthew in Nicobarese, Nancowry dialect in 1884.^[1][5]

On 31 August 1896 De Roepstorff died in Frederiksberg, aged 52.^[1]