Jens Olsen (pastor)

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Jens John Ingvar Olsen (born May 13, 1894 in Sisimiut ; † August 25, 1966 ) was a Greenlandic pastor and councilor .

Life

Jens Olsen attended Grønland's seminarium from 1909 . In 1920 he received in Church of Holmen in Copenhagen the priesthood . He then worked in Ilulissat and later in Upernavik , Qaanaaq , Sisimiut and Qeqertarsuaq . From 1923 to 1938 he worked as a missionary and pastor in the north of Greenland at Gustav Olsen's (his second cousin) missionary station and it was in 1934, with the 41-year-old Nukagpiánguaĸ from Siorapaluk, who converted the last pagan Greenlander to Christianity. In 1939 he was a member of the Greenland Commission . From 1951 to 1954 he was a member of the regional council, but was represented by Hans Egede Berthelsen last year . In 1952 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Dannebrog Order. He retired in 1955 and lived in Ilulissat until he died in 1966 at the age of 72.

Jens Olsen was the son of the carpenter Jens Niels David Olsen (1864-1919) and his wife Karen Justine Flavia Thaarup (1863-1919). His brother-in-law was the Eskimologist Svend Frederiksen (1906–1967). His niece is the politician Emilie Lennert (1931–2019). The son mitdâĸ Olsen (1928–1992) comes from his own marriage to Else Rakkel Abelone Fly .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Church records Sisimiut 1890–1905 (Born boys p. 6)
  2. ↑ a b Ved Jens Olsens død in the Atuagagdliutit of September 15, 1966
  3. ↑ a b 70 år in the Atuagagdliutit of May 21, 1964
  4. ↑ 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 Olsen, Jens
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Olsen, Jens John Ingvar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greenland pastor and councilor
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Sisimiut
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1966