Jacob Kjer

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Jacob Kjer (born April 17, 1825 in Sisimiut , † January 13, 1905 in Frederiksberg ) was a Danish missionary in Greenland and pastor .

Life

Jacob Kjer was born in Sisimiut, where his father Knud Kjer (1802–1865) worked as a missionary. His mother was the second wife of his father, Caroline Christiane Røhe (1804–1874), daughter of the parishioner Frederik Ludvig Røhe and his wife Margrethe Cathrine Hansen. Jacob attended the Cathedral School in Aarhus and became a student in 1846. On January 20, 1853, he completed a theology degree. On December 24, 1854 he married in Copenhagen Caroline Ferdinandine Margrethe Berth (1828-?), Daughter of Captain Jacob Berth (1775-1849) and his wife Christiane Scheel (1783-1837), in turn a subsidiary of Geheimstaatsminsters Jørgen Erik Scheel (1737-1795) was.

After two years of development - probably the Greenland seminary - he was born on April 25, 1855 ordained and helpers and Seminariumslehrer in Ilulissat appointed. In 1857 he became a missionary there. In 1865 he was allowed to dedicate the Church of Maniitsoq . In 1868 he returned to Denmark and in 1870 he was pastor in Ansager Sogn , but had to give up the office due to hearing loss. He later served as an assistant pastor.

Jacob Kjer published Atuainiutit, the first Greenlandic reader in 1880 . He participated in the overhaul of the Greenlandic book of psalms, adding several of his own hymns. In 1887 he translated the Bible story by Ludvig Christian Müller into Greenlandic ( Atuagarssuarnĩtut oĸalugtuat pingârnerssait ). In 1893 he published a Greenland-Danish dictionary together with Christian Rasmussen . Together with Christian Rasmussen and Haldor Ferdinand Jørgensen , he finished the Greenland translation of the Bible in 1900. He died five years later at the age of 79.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d biography in Biografisk Leksikon for Grønland
  2. ↑ a b Nekrolog in the Illustreret Tidende of January 29, 1905
  3. ↑ Frederik Hjort: Slægten Gjerløff med dens spindelinier gjennem about three hundrede aar. Odense 1904. (.pdf)
personal data
SURNAME Kjer, Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish missionary in Greenland and pastor
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Sisimiut
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1905
Place of death Frederiksberg