Aqissiaq Møller

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Aqissiaq Møller [ ɑˈqisːiɑq ˈmølʌ ] (according to the old spelling Aĸigssiaĸ ; born August 4, 1939 in Maniitsoq ; † August 21, 1997 in Copenhagen ) was a Greenlandic civil servant , teacher , headmaster , poet and translator .

Life

Aqissiaq Møller was the son of the catechist Karl Møller and his wife Philipine Knudsen. On March 14, 1964, he married the Danish Marianne Vinderslev (* 1941).

He attended Grønland's seminarium in the 1950s and then moved to Denmark , where he graduated from Vordingborg Statseminarium in 1964. He then taught in Sandby and Ejstrupholm , then moved back to Greenland, where he was a teacher in Qaqortoq from 1967 to 1969 . He then returned to Denmark and, after completing a one-year course at Danmarks Lærerhøjskole, taught at the Greenland School Ellekilde in Taastrup from 1971 to 1975 , received the candidate degree at the Teachers' College in 1975 and became a lecturer at Grønland's seminarium. From 1979 to 1981 he was the Greenlandic Vice School Director. From 1982 to 1988 he was director of culture and education in the government, then from 1989 to 1991 director of the government and then from 1991 to 1994 director of culture, education and research. In 1995 he was appointed rector of the seminary.

Aqissiaq Møller was co-editor of Tidsskriftet Grønland from 1972 to 1975 and Aliikkutassiaq from 1978 to 1980. He was a member of several cultural and educational policy committees and commissions. He co-founded the Greenland Authors' Association Atuakkiortut and was an administrative member from 1976 to 1981, of which he was chairman from 1978 to 1980. From 1976 to 1979 he was also chairman of the board of the mother-child institution Egmontgården. He was also an administrative member of Det Grønlandske Selskab (1971–1975), Det Grønlandske Forlag (from 1979), Grønlands Kunstskole (1976–1981) and the radio administration (1979–1983).

He was also active as a poet and translator of Greenlandic poetry into Danish. On November 29, 1990 he received the Nersornaat in silver. In May 1997 he was diagnosed with stomach cancer, of which he died in August at the age of 58 in Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen.

Works

  • 1970: Allagarsiat (collection of poems)
  • 1975: Grønlandsk digte (translation)
  • 1980: Inuit (collection of poems)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Torben Lodberg : Grønlands Grønne Bog 1988 . Ed .: Grønlands hjemmestyres informationkontor. Copenhagen 1988, ISBN 87-982902-9-0 , pp. 57 .
  2. ↑ a b c Nekrolog von Konrad Steenholdt in the Atuagagdliutit of August 26, 1997
  3. ↑ a b Jan. René Westh: Ordenshistorisk Tidsskrift . Ed .: Ordenshistorisk Selskab . tape 36 , December 2010, ISSN  0904-5554 , p. 65 f .
personal data
SURNAME Møller, Aqissiaq
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Møller, Aĸigssiaĸ (old spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greenlandic civil servant, teacher, headmaster, poet and translator
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Maniitsoq
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1997
Place of death Copenhagen