Frederik Nielsen (writer)

Frederik Jørgen Niels Nielsen (nickname Fari , according to the old spelling Fare ; born September 20, 1905 in Qoornoq ; † December 17, 1991 ) was a Greenlandic writer , translator , linguist , teacher , director and state councilor .

life and career

Life

Frederik Nielsen was born in Qoornoq in 1905. His father was killed in a kayak accident when Frederik was four years old. From 1921 to 1927 he attended Grønland's seminary and then until 1931 the teachers' seminar in Tønder . After finishing his studies, he returned to Greenland and worked as a teacher at the school in Aasiaat . In 1936 he worked at his own training center in Nuuk . In 1941 he was also given the post of school consultant for Central Greenland. In 1947 he left Nuuk to become headmaster in Qaqortoq . Although he remained a school consultant, he was now responsible for South Greenland. In 1951 he was also a lay judge at Grønlands Landsret . In 1954 he was appointed school inspector . In 1957 he became chairman of the newly founded Grønlandske Radiofoni , today Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa . As this he had to spread the mass media in Greenland, since before there was no daily newspaper , national radio, let alone television . The Atuagagdliutit , which was recently published in two languages as Atuagagdliutit / Grønlandsposten , was the only newspaper in the country and was only published every two weeks. In 1969 he retired.

As a politically active person, he sat on the Syssel council of Qaqortoq from 1948 to 1951 and then on the municipal council of the municipality of Qaqortoq . He also represented Klaus Lynge in Grønlands Landsråd in 1949 and was then a full councilor from 1951 to 1954.

Literacy

From 1937 to 1946 he was a member of Grønlands Folkeoplysning , the Greenland popular education association, as well as Det Grønlandske Forlag , Grønlands Landsmuseum and Foreningen for Grønlands Folkekunst . His main literary works are novels and poems, but he also wrote works of a visual nature and arranged translations of works by Grundtvig and Hans Christian Andersen into Greenlandic . He also translated the Old Testament into Greenlandic and was a member of working groups that worked on the creation of a Greenlandic translation of psalms and a Greenlandic-Danish and Danish-Greenlandic dictionary. As a member of the language and spelling Committee, he was also on the Greenlandic spelling reform of 1973 involved the spelling of Samuel Kleinschmidt replaced by the now common. His most important works were prose and poetry , such as the novel Tuumarsi (the Greenlandic form of Thomas ) from 1934, the nature-related collection of poems Qilak, nuna, imaq ( German  sky, land, sea ) 1943, the adventure Arnajaraq (a maiden name) from 1948. Above all, however, is his tetralogy , published between 1970 and 1988 with the novel Ilissi tassa nunassarsi ( German  There is your future land ) , which deals with the settlement of Greenland by the Thule culture in the Middle Ages .

Honors

Frederik Nielsen has been the recipient of the Rink Medal of the Greenland Society since 1972 . In addition, he became a knight of the Dannebrog Order in 1952 and a first-degree knight in 1965 . In 1984 he received the Greenland Culture Prize . He received the Nersornaat in silver on April 30, 1991, before he died at the end of the year at the age of 86. The road Farip Aqqutaa in Nuuk is named after him.

family

Frederik Nielsen was the son of Niels Hans Morten Nielsen (1882-1909) and his wife Juliane Ane Jocebha Holm (1887-1959). His cousin was the politician Andreas Nielsen (1910-1993). Frederik Nielsen's first marriage was on June 21, 1947, Grethe Schandorph (1916–?). After divorcing in 1958, he married Ane Sofia Maria Lovisa Egede (1914–?), Daughter of Abel Pavia Niels Egede (1880–1945) and Dina Abrahamsen (1875–1953) on November 2, 1962 . His father-in-law's sister had a son with the South Greenland inspector Oscar Peter Cornelius Kock (1860–1937).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kulturpris on the Naalakkersuisut website
2. ↑ Biography in Dansk biografisk leksikon
3. ↑ January René Westh: Ordenshistorisk Tidsskrift . Ed .: Ordenshistorisk Selskab . tape 36 , December 2010, ISSN  0904-5554 , p. 54 .
4. ^ Necrology by Lars Emil Johansen in the Atuagagdliutit of December 18, 1991
5. ^ Church records Nuuk 1902–1915 (Born boys p. 9 and married p. 135)