Jacob II Egede

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Jakob II Egede (actually Jakob Eskild Lars Kristian Enok Egede ; born January 19, 1901 in Igaliku , † 1988 ) was a Greenlandic poet , composer and musician .

Life

Jakob Egede was the son of the hunter Karl Pavia Otto Adolf Nikolaj Egede (1869–?) And his wife Karen Marie Elisabeth Vasthi Klara Poulsen (1870–?). He came from the important agricultural family Egede in southern Greenland and was the sixth generation of Anders Olsen's descendants . He worked as an organist in his hometown and in well over 60 years since the early 1920s he wrote numerous songs and poems, which were often thematically taken from life in Igaliku. At the beginning of the 1970s there was a fire in which Jakob II Egede lost both his wife and all of his works. He then succeeded in reconstructing almost the entire collection from his memories. In 1983 he contributed sixteen poems and eleven compositions to the great Greenlandic songbook Tussiaqattarutit . In the same year he and Hans Lynge received the Greenland Culture Prize when it was first awarded. In the mid-1980s he moved to the Narsaq retirement home before dying in 1988 at the age of 87. He created 200 songs during his lifetime. For the 225th anniversary of the town, the artist Peter Kristiansen (Kujooq) created a bust of him in Igaliku.

Individual evidence

  1. a b Church registers Qaqortoq 1908-1917 (confirmed boys p. 88)
  2. a b Grønland - music in Den Store Danske
  3. Inuit landsby round 200 år in the Atuagagdliutit of July 27, 1983
  4. Den første grønlandske Kulturpris til Jakob II Egede, Igaliko, og Hans Lynge, Nuuk in the Tidsskriftet Grønland (1984/1)
  5. ^ Announcement on the 85th birthday in the Atuagagdliutit of January 29, 1986
  6. Igaliku-jubilæum et tilløbsstykke in Sermitsiaq