Hedevig Christiane de Roepstorff (; 30 November 1843 – 31 August 1896) was a Danish Lutheran missionary and editor.
Biography Hedevig Christiane Willemoes was born 30 November 1843 in Copenhagen to Niels Willemoes (1792–1860), an accountant, and Margrethe Magdalene Rostrup (1804–1880). On 5 May 1844, De Roepstorff was baptised in .
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.
The couple later returned to the Nicobar Islands where De Roepstorff worked for the islands Christian mission. 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.
On 31 August 1896 De Roepstorff died in Frederiksberg, aged 52.
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