Abel Kristiansen

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Abel Jens Kristian Kristiansen (born January 18, 1900 in Nuuk ; † 1975 ) was a Greenlandic catechist , poet , journalist and councilor .

Life

Abel Kristiansen was the son of the hunter Johan Gert Kristen Kristiansen (1870–?) And his wife Tuperna Kristiane Sophia Titussen (1870–?). He attended Grønland's seminary , where he was trained as a catechist, as which he worked from 1924 in many different places in West Greenland. He was denied ordination in 1946 due to a lack of a medical certificate. From 1951 to 1954 he was a member of Grønlands Landsråd . As early as 1947 he had been named Dannebrogsmand , mainly because he collected 200,000 crowns in Greenland after the Second World War to repair war damage in Denmark. He also texted chants and wrote newspaper articles for the Atuagagdliutit . Abel Kristiansen died in 1975 shortly before his 76th birthday. The son Ulloriannguaq Kristiansen (1927–1998), who made a name for himself primarily as a journalist, emerged from his marriage to Dorthe Heilmann .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Church records Nuuk 1887–1901 (Born boys p. 17)
  2. ↑ a b A. Kristiansen død in the Atuagagdliutit of January 1, 1976
  3. ↑ a b 25 Aars Jubilæum in Grønlandsposten from April 15, 1949
  4. ↑ Axel Kjær Sørensen: Denmark-Greenland in the Twentieth Century (= Meddelelser om Grønland . Man and Society. 34). Danish Polar Center, Copenhagen 2006, ISBN 87-90369-89-0 , ( digital copy (PDF; 3.35 MB) ).
personal data
SURNAME Kristiansen, Abel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kristiansen, Abel Jens Kristian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greenlandic catechist, poet, journalist and councilor
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuuk
DATE OF DEATH 1975