Carl Janssen (pastor)
Carl Emil Janssen (born December 20, 1813 in Copenhagen , † April 9, 1884 ibid) was a Danish missionary in Greenland , university director , author and pastor .
Life
Carl Janssen was the son of Chamber Councilor Poul Ernst Janssen (1782–1830) and the dancer Karen Børresen (1787–1863). He completed a degree in theology in 1840 and became a teacher at the Agricultural Institute on Gut Haraldslund near Hinnerup and later at the Helligåndskirken school in Copenhagen.
In 1843 he enrolled in the Greenland Seminary and was ordained a year later . He was made a missionary of Sisimiut and was also responsible for Maniitsoq . In the same year it was decided that two seminars should be set up in Greenland. Carl Janssen was involved in the founding of the South Greenland seminar and prepared the young Greenlanders for admission to the seminar under his care. When the director of Ilinniarfissuaq in Nuuk , Carl Janssen's brother-in-law Carl Junius Optatus Steenberg (1812–1872), traveled home in 1848, Carl Janssen was appointed interim seminar leader. In 1849 he became a missionary to Nuuk and consecrated the new church . In the same year, on November 8, he married the Danish Louise Sophia Frederikke Luplau (1827–1895), daughter of Pastor Ludvig Ferdinand Luplau (1800–1837) and his wife Marie Elisabeth Bernburg (1802–1862). In 1851 Carl Janssen was sent to the North Greenland seminary, where there were bigger problems than in Nuuk. In 1853 he was appointed head of the seminary in Nuuk, which he remained until 1857, when he had to travel home with gout .
During his time in Greenland he was one of the first to promote the spread of Kleinschmidt's orthography, which was introduced in 1851 . He wrote the Elementærbog i Eskimoernes Sprog til Brug for Europæerne ved Colonierne i Grønland (1862), the world history Silamiut ingerdlausiánik (Menneskehedens fremskridt) (1861) and revised the Greenlandic Psalms. In 1913 his diaries were published. Together with Hinrich Johannes Rink and Samuel Kleinschmidt , he was involved in the introduction of the Forstanderskaberne from 1857.
After his return to Denmark he was pastor in Sørbymagle Sogn and Kirkerup Sogn in 1858 and in Værslev Sogn and Jordløse Sogn in 1872 . He retired in 1881 and died three years later at the age of 70.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Janssen, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Janssen, Carl Emil (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish missionary in Greenland, university director, author and pastor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 20, 1813 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Copenhagen |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 9, 1884 |
| Place of death | Copenhagen |