Josva Kleist

Hans Hoseas Josva Kleist (born January 14, 1879 in Nanortalik , † March 29, 1938 in Narsarmijit ) was a Greenlandic catechist , poet and councilor .

Life

Josva Kleist was the son of Jakob Emanuel Adolph Isak Kleist and his wife Marie Elisabeth Sabine Berthelsen. Rasmus Berthelsen (1827–1901) was his great-uncle.

Until 1903 he attended Grønland's seminary , where he was trained as a catechist. As such he worked in Narsarmijit for many years. He sat in Grønlands Landsråd from 1911 to 1922 and was then present as a representative at the meetings in 1925, 1932, 1933 and 1937.

In his poems Josva Kleist warns against addiction to coffee and cigarettes and urges not to be conservative and stubborn, but not to forget old virtues.

In 1903 he married in Nuuk Ketura Helene Juliane Holm (1882-1904), daughter of the carpenter Niels Edvard Julius Carl Holm and his wife Helene Bathsheba Debora Eleonora Esther Heilmann. His wife died in childbed the following year and Josva Kleist married Bolethe Marie Ingeborg Chemnitz (1888–1957), daughter of the pastor and catechist Jens Anton Barsilai Ignatius Chemnitz (1853–1929) and his wife Ane Marie Jacobine Cathrine Holm (1858–1929 ) in 1907 ) and sister of Jørgen Chemnitz (1890–1956). From this marriage, among others, the daughter Marie “Maaliaaraq” Athalie Qituraq Kleist married. Vebæk (1917–2012), who became a well-known writer.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ajoĸiuneĸ Josva Kleist. in the Atuagagdliutit of August 15, 1938
2. ↑ Church registers Qaqortoq 1862–1887 (Born boys p. 76)
3. ↑ ^{a b c} biography in Den Store Danske
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) ).
5. ↑ Maaliaaraq Vebæk in Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon