David Olsen

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David Ignatius Sivert "Dâverssuaĸ" Olsen (born June 5, 1870 in Sarfannguit , † September 8, 1944 in Sisimiut ) was a Greenlandic trade administrator and councilor .

Life

David Olsen was the son of Holger Hans Peder Ezechiel Olsen and Eunike Maren Eleonora Kleist. He married Ane Maria Kleist (1870–?) On October 6, 1889 in Sisimiut.

He was a hunter and fisherman as well as Udsteds administrator of Sarfannguit. He was the first Greenlander to own a motorboat and a pioneer of cod and salmon fishing in the country. He sat in the council, was in 1921 a member of the Grønlandskommission and sat from 1923 to 1926 in South Greenlandic provincial government . He was a Dannebrogsmand and was awarded by the Grønlandsfond. He campaigned for the creation of the local newspaper Piniartoĸ by Jørgen CF Olsen , but died shortly before the first edition in 1944 at the age of 74.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Church records Sisimiut 1867–1887 (Born boys p. 7)
  2. ↑ a b c Dannebrogsmand, David J. Olsen in Grønlandsposten from December 1, 1944
  3. ↑ Church records Sisimiut 1888–1905 (Married people, p. 107)
  4. ↑ Sarfánguaĸ fejrer 100-aars jubilæum in Grønlandsposten from December 16, 1943
  5. ↑ Holsteinsborg ved århundredeskiftet in Atuagagdliutit of March 23, 1961
  6. ↑ 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) ).
  7. ↑ Storfangeren David Olsen in Grønlandsposten from November 1, 1945
personal data
SURNAME Olsen, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Olsen, David Ignatius Sivert (full name); Dâverssuaĸ (nickname); Daaversuaq (nickname, new spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greenland Trade Administrator and Councilor
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Sarfannguit
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1944
Place of death Sisimiut