Isak Lund (politician, 1902)

John Isak Lund (born March 22, 1902 in Tasiilaq , † September 24, 1949 in Narsaq ) was a Greenland state councilor .

Life

Isak Lund was the second son of the poet Henrik Lund (1875-1948) and his wife Karoline Malene Justine Haldora Egede (1877-1979). He was born in East Greenland, where his father was a catechist at the time. Jakob Lund (1900–1979) was his older brother. Isak remained unmarried all his life.

Isak became involved in sheep breeding at an early age. He spent a few years in Iceland to get better acquainted with sheep farming. Then worked as a shepherd at Nuuk from around 1930 . He later moved to his hometown of Narsaq and worked there. He was elected to the South Greenland State Council in 1945 . His motorboat sank on September 24, 1949. Six of the ten people on board drowned, including Isak himself. After his death, Lars Motzfeldt replaced him in the regional council .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Church records Tasiilaq 1890–1921 (Young men, p. 3)
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Ved Isak Lunds død in Grønlandsposten from September 16, 1949
^ ^A ^b 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) ).

personal data
SURNAME	Lund, Isak
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lund, John Isak (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greenland Provincial Council
DATE OF BIRTH	March 22, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tasiilaq
DATE OF DEATH	September 24, 1949
Place of death	at Narsaq

[geburt-1] Church records Tasiilaq 1890–1921 (Young men, p. 3)

[atua-2] Ved Isak Lunds død in Grønlandsposten from September 16, 1949

[aks-3] A ^b 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) ).