Rasmus Rasmussen
Rasmus Rasmussen (born August 13, 1871 in Miðvágur , Faroe Islands , † October 5, 1962 in Tórshavn ) was a Faroese educator and writer . He is also known in the Faroe Islands as Rasmus á Háskulanum ("Rasmus at the Adult Education Center ") and used the stage name Regin í Líð as a writer .
Life
Rasmus Rasmussen was, together with Símun av Skarði, the founder of the Faroe Islands folk high school . He wrote the first Faroese novel under the pseudonym Regin í Líð and was also an important prose writer .
Rasmus is the son of Ata Haraldsdatter and Johannes Rasmussen from Miðvágur. From 1892 to 1894 he was at the adult education center in Vallekilde / Denmark and from 1896 to 1898 in Askov , where he met av Skarði and both made the decision to found a Faroese adult education center. They later attended the Copenhagen School of Education ( Statens Lærerhøjskole ), where Rasmussen specialized in science and mathematics .
Back in the Faroe Islands, they founded the folk high school in Klaksvík in 1899 . Rasmussen married his friend's sister, Anna Suffía av Skarði , who also worked at the community college. Rasmussen taught here until 1947.
From 1914 to 1928 Rasmus Rasmussen was a politician of the Sjálvstýrisflokkurin in Løgting . At that time, he replaced Símun av Skarði, who had sat in parliament since the party was founded in 1906. From 1911 to 1947 Rasmussen was also a board member of Føroya Fiskimannafelag (Faroe Islands Fisheries Association).
As a writer he dealt among other things with the Faroese botany . Føroya Flora from 1936 is the main work of this work. His debut in 1909, however, was a novel ( Babelstornið 'The Tower of Babel') - at the same time the first novel in the Faroese language . As a translator, he published the classic Old Norse works Völuspá and Hávamál in New Faroese, which are part of the Older (Song) Edda .
Works
- 1909 - Bábelstornið (2nd edition 1987)
- 1910 - Plantulæra (Plant Science )
- 1912 - Glámlýsi (new edition: Emil Thomsen, Tórshavn 1987)
- 1922–1923 - Völuspá (translation, published 1945)
- 1928 - Høvdingar hittast (drama)
- 1936 - Føroya Flora (2nd edition 1952)
- 1942 - Tvær fornsøgur
- 1943 - Tvær skaldsøgur
- 1945 - Fornmálasagnir og fornmálaljóð
- 1945 - Hávamál (translation)
- 1946 - Gróðrarnýtsla fyrr
- 1949 - Sær er siður á landi (Memoirs, 2nd edition 1985)
- 1950 - Føroysk Plantunøvn (Faroese plant names )
- 1951 - Yvirlit yvir Føroya søgu (overview of the history of the Faroe Islands )
- 1952 - Gróður og gróðrarvánir
- 2001 - Rakul - og aðrar søgur ; ISBN 99918-0-283-5 / Google Books (also available as an audio book)
- 2006 - Eyðun . In: "I know about islands ..." stories from the Faroe Islands . Edited by Verena Stössinger and Anna Katharina Dömling; Unionsverlag, ISBN 3-293-00366-4
literature
- Tummas Lenvig: Fyrsta føroyska skaldsøgan: Regin í Líð: Bábelstornið: hvat hevur høvundurin serliga viðgjørt and lýst, and hvussu er tað gjørt? Tórshavn, 1991
- Kirsten Brix: Dialog i Babelstårnet: analyze af Regin í Líðs prosaforfatterskab , dissertation at the University of the Faroe Islands , 2001, book edition 2002. (in Danish, with translations from Rasmussen's work - Annales societatis scientiarum Færoensis, Supplementum, ISSN 0365-6772 )
- Kirsten Brix: Regin í Líð and the breakthrough - a short description of some chapters in the prose poem by Regin í Líð. In: Tjaldur 30, pp. 22-26
Web links
- Ph.D.- ritgerð um prosuskaldskapin eftir Regin í Líð . frodskaparfelag.fo. May 1, 2002. Archived from the original on July 8, 2002. Retrieved October 27, 2016. (in Faroese about Kirsten Brix's doctoral thesis)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rasmussen, Rasmus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Regin í Líð (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Faroese educator and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 13, 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Miðvágur , Faroe Islands |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th October 1962 |
| Place of death | Tórshavn |