Abia Brandt

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Emil Rasmus Abia Brandt (born August 22, 1886 in Aasiaat ; † unknown ) was a Greenland state councilor .

Abia Brandt was the son of the boat operator Ole Hendrik Jakob Brandt (1847–1914) and his first wife Ane Marie Kristine Thorin (1851–1904). He was married four times because three of his wives had died young. Abia Brandt was a hunter, sailor and later a Kiffaq (helper). In 1915 he represented his cousin Wille Brandt in the North Greenland State Council .

Individual evidence

  1. Church records Aasiaat 1866–1888 (Born boys p. 40)
  2. Niels H. Frandsen: Nogle Grønlandske slægter . Forlaget Atuagkat, Nuuk 2011, ISBN 978-87-92554-22-2 , pp. 18 .
  3. 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) ).