Edvard Kruse

Johan Magnus Edvard Kruse (born August 23, 1900 in Niaqornat , † May 20, 1968 ) was a Greenland councilor , catechist , poet , artist and journalist .

Edvard Kruse was the son of the hunter Hans Ludvig Salomon Karl Kruse and his wife Anike Louise Bolette Marie Jeremiassen. His older brother was the Provincial Councilor Tobias Kruse (1898–?). Edvard attended Grønland's seminary and then became head catechist. From 1927 to 1932 he sat for the first time in Grønlands Landsråd. From 1939 to 1944 he was elected one more time, with only three meetings, and finally from 1955 to 1958 he sat one last time in the National Council before retiring during the current legislative period for reasons of age.

He wrote a hymn about Uummannaq , drew postage stamps, and made other drawings. After retiring from politics, he wrote for many years in the Atuagagdliutit as a correspondent from Uummannaq.

The artist Karl Kruse (1938–1999) was his son. The school in Uummannaq, the Edvard Krusep Atuarfia, is named after him.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Church records Uummannaq 1899–1905 (Born boys p. 9)
2. ^ Statement of thanks in the Atuagagdliutit of June 6, 1968
3. ↑ Church registers Uummannaq 1878–1898 (Married people, p. 145)
4. ↑ 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) ).
5. ↑ Går for at yngre kræfter kan comes til in the Atuagagdliutit of August 7, 1958
6. ↑ Sang om "Umanak". in the Grønlandsposten from August 1, 1949
7. ↑ Grønlandsk brevmærke. in the Grønlandsposten from April 1, 1944
8. ↑ ^{a b} Lev vel, gamle redaktør in the Atuagagdliutit of July 29, 1987
9. ^ List of correspondents in the Atuagagdliutit of September 26, 1958 and the following years