Hother Ostermann

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Hother Bertel Simon Ostermann (born June 12, 1876 in Nørre Årslev , Sønderhald Herred , Randers office ; † June 28, 1950 in Greve , Tune Herred , København office ) was a Danish pastor , missionary , teacher , historian , genealogist , writer and translator .

Life

After graduating from school, Hother Ostermann worked in a pharmacy from 1892 to 1894 before completing private studies in 1896. He then worked as a private tutor in Veksø and became a candidate for theology in 1901. His childhood friends Knud Rasmussen and his cousin Frederik Balle aroused Ostermann's interest in Greenland . From then on he worked as a pastor and missionary in Ilulissat . In 1903 he was appointed teacher seminar leader. The following year he moved to Aasiaat , where he was pastor and from 1906 in Nuuk , where he was also a teacher at Grønland's seminary . After only one year he returned to his old place of work in Ilulissat and took up his position as pastor and seminar leader. He did not return to Denmark until 1921 and was finally pastor at Greve Sogn until 1946 before he retired.

Hother Ostermann worked for years to search Greenlandic church records and to record the families of the country in biographical and genealogical books. Other works dealt with the missionary history of the Europeans in Greenland. He also translates the psalms and Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales into Greenlandic .

Hother was the son of the businessman Christian Andreas Leopold Ostermann (1854-1912) and his wife Bertha Franziska Augusta Marie Gjølbye (1856-1940). On June 11, 1901, he married in Valby Marie Kirstine "Dina" Andersen (1878-1945), the daughter of Jens Andersen (1837-1880) and Caroline Pedersen (1848-1886) from Hårby . His second great-uncle was the pastor Osvald Vilhelm Bøggild (1839–1920). The following children were born from his marriage:

  • Ingeborg Henriette Ostermann (born July 7, 1902 in Ilulissat)
  • Margrethe Ostermann (born December 10, 1905 in Ilulissat)
  • Stillborn daughter (* / † July 2, 1907 in Ilulissat)
  • Arne Ostermann (born December 5, 1909 in Ilulissat)
  • Knud Ostermann (born January 3, 1912 in Ilulissat)
  • Kirsten Ostermann (born July 7, 1915 in Ilulissat)

Works (selection)

  • Meddelelser om danske Slægter i Grønland (Article, 1915)
  • Bidrag til danske og norske Slægter i Grønland (Article, 1917)
  • Svenske Slægter i Grønland (Article, 1921)
  • Den norske Grønlandsprest provst Jørgen Sverdrup (1922)
  • Dagbøker av nordmenn på Grønland for 1814 (three volumes, 1935–1944)
  • Grønlandske distriktsbeskrivelser forfatt av nordmenn for 1814 (1937)
  • En grønlandsk Gren af ​​Slægten Hammond (article, 1938)
  • Norske notater i Grønlands kirkebøker (article, 1938)
  • Nordmænd paa Grønland 1721–1814 (two volumes, 1940)
  • Skrivelser angående Mathis Jochimsens Grønlandsekspedition (1946)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography in Dansk biografisk leksikon
  2. ↑ Biography in Biografisk Leksikon for Grønland
  3. ↑ Church registers Qasigiannguit 1890–1909 (Born girls p. 48)
  4. ↑ Church registers Ilulissat 1890–1909 (Born girls p. 52)
  5. ^ Church records Ilulissat 1890–1909 (Born girls, p. 55)
  6. ↑ Church records Ilulissat 1890–1909 (Born boys p. 25)
  7. ↑ Church records Ilulissat 1910–1925 (Born boys p. 4)
  8. ↑ Church records Ilulissat 1910–1925 (Born girls p. 49)
personal data
SURNAME Ostermann, Hother
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ostermann, Hother Bertel Simon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish pastor, missionary, teacher, historian, genealogist, writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Nørre Årslev , Sønderhald Herred , Randers Office
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1950
Place of death Greve , Tune Herred , København's office