Jørgen Frantz Hammershaimb

Jørgen Frantz Hammershaimb (* July 6, 1767 - May 24, 1820 ) was from 1805 to 1816 the seventeenth Løgmaður (then a kind of district judge) of the Faroe Islands . When he resigned in 1816, he was also the last Løgmaður in the older series.

Life

Jørgen Frantz Hammershaimb was born the son of Governor Wencelaus Hammershaimb (1744-1828) and his wife Armgard Maria Svabo (1737-1808) and was a native of the Faroese. He married Armgard Maria Egholm in 1813 and she gave birth to their son Venceslaus Ulricus Hammershaimb in 1819 , the creator of the modern Faroese written language .

JF Hammershaimb was a lawyer and was appointed Løgmaður in 1805. He therefore moved to the island of Vágar , where the Løgmenn had their own official residence since 1555, the farm "á Steig" in Sandavagur . Hammershaimb was the last in a series of 17 Løgmenn to hold this post when Løgting closed in 1816. As the successor to Johan Michael Lund , he was only a constituent Løgmaður, who never ran for the office himself. When the Løgting closed, the Faroese were not asked, but there was also no noteworthy protest. The highest secular authority in the newly created Danish office was now the Amtmaður , who had his official seat in Tórshavn . Emilius Løbner was the first Amtmaður to carry out this task from 1816 onwards and thus to a certain extent succeeded Jørgen Frantz Hammershaimb. In the following years, however, the need for a state-owned ting was noticed, and since 1856 it has existed again as the district council of the Faroe Islands. The office of Løgmaður, however, remained vacant and was only reintroduced with the autonomy of the Faroe Islands in 1948.

However, Jørgen Frantz Hammershaimb's family received permission to stay in the former office after the resignation of the Løgmaður office in 1816 until the death of the last incumbent. After the death of Jørgen Frantz in 1820, the widow moved with her children to Tórshavn in 1822, where they lived near her father-in-law and grandfather Wencelaus Hammershaimb.

See also

• Andrass Samuelsen , first Løgmaður of the younger series.

Web links

• Løgtingið 150 - Hátíðarrit, bind 2 (2002), page 280. (PDF) . logting.fo. Archived from the original on September 27, 2006. (in Faroese)
• The Hammershaimb family , hammershaimb.dk

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Løgtingið 150 - Hátíðarrit, bind 2 (2002), page 367. (PDF) . logting.fo. Archived from the original on September 27, 2006. (in Faroese)
2. ↑ VUHammershaimb - faðirin at skriftmálinum , hvannrok.fo (in Faroese)