Carl Christian Olsen

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Carl Christian Jonas "Puju" Olsen (born January 22, 1943 in Sisimiut ) is a Greenlandic linguist , university professor and human rights activist .

Life

Carl Christian Olsen is the son of Justus Kristian Gerth Olsen (1906–?), Son of Lars Albrekt Efraim Olsen and Laura Eva Lydia Johansen, and Sofie Helga Agnes Olsen (1915–?), Daughter of Seth Eli Johan Olsen and Maria Rode Agnethe Johansen. His grandfather was a member of Grønlands Landsråd . From 1972 to 1992 he was in a relationship with the politician Henriette Rasmussen (1950–2017).

Carl Christian Olsen attended school in Sisimiut and was trained in Høng, Denmark , from grade 7 . After school he attended the University of Copenhagen , where he studied Eskimology . He later also studied at the University of Alaska , the University of Chicago , the Ohio State University and the University of Oslo , before doing his doctorate again in Copenhagen in 1975 with a thesis on complex noun phrases in Kitaamiusut . He was a co-founder of the University of Greenland , where he taught as an associate professor of linguistics and literature. He was also a lecturer at Barrow High School in Utqiaġvik , at Knud Rasmussens Højskole in Sisimiut and at Ilinniarfissuaq in Nuuk .

He was head of the Greenlandic language authority Oqaasileriffik , the language committee, the place-name committee and the language committee of the Inuit Circumpolar Council . He is also Chairman of the Greenlandic Department of the ICC and ICC Vice-Chairman. He actively campaigns for the rights of the Inuit and, for example, enforced the recognition of Greenlandic as the official language of Greenland in 2009. Since 2017 he has been chairman of the Naalakkersuisut Human Rights Council .

On December 27, 2007, he received the silver Nersornaat for his work and in 2017 he was honored with the Research Prize of the International Arctic Social Sciences Association .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Church records Sisimiut 1905–1914 (Born boys p. 3)
  2. ^ Church records Sisimiut 1915–1927 (Born girls p. 42)
  3. ↑ a b Henriette Rasmussen in Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon
  4. ↑ a b Nationsbygger med sproget som værktøj at kristeligt-dagblad.dk
  5. ↑ a b biography at inuitcircumpolar.indelta.ca
  6. ↑ Nyt formandskab i Grønlands Råd for Menneskerettigheder on the Naalakkersuisut website
  7. ↑ 4 prominent blev beæret med Nersornaat in knr.gl
  8. ↑ Forskerpris til Carl Christian Olsen in the Sermitsiaq
personal data
SURNAME Olsen, Carl Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Olsen, Carl Christian Jonas (full name); Puju (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greenlandic linguist, university professor and human rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Sisimiut