Karl Christiansen

Karl Frederik Christiansen (born July 31, 1890 in Kangersuatsiaq , † October 14, 1932 in Kuuk ) was a Greenlandic catechist and councilor .

Karl Christiansen was the son of the hunter Laurits Andreas Thomas Christiansen (1861-1897) and the midwife Johanne Juliane Vilhelmine Christensen (1863-1932). On July 24, 1912, he married Marie Mette Margrethe Davidsen (1892-1919), daughter of Hans Peter Markus Isak Davidsen (1865-1919) and Katrine Charlotte Helene Dorthea Christensen (1868-1914), a niece of his mother's in Ikerasaarsuk . They had the daughter Benedigte Elisabeth Lea Martha (1914–1935), who died after the birth of her illegitimate daughter Susanne Kirsten Bolette Johanne (* / † 1935). After his first wife died of flu at the age of 27, Karl Christiansen was married for the second time on August 1, 1920 in Tasiusaqthe 20-year-old widow Johanne Charlotte Bolette Andreassen (1900–1922), daughter of Kasper Tobias Benjamin Andreassen (1876–1932) and his wife Lydie Benedigte Karoline Aronsen (1878–1925). The couple had their son Bendt Adam Jakob Andreas (1921–1922), who died young. His second wife died of tuberculosis that same year, shortly before her 22nd birthday .

Karl Christiansen worked as a catechist in Kuuk. From 1923 to 1926 he was a member of the North Greenland State Council . Like all his colleagues and from the northern part of the inspectorate, he missed the 1925 meeting and was not represented. He finally died twice widowed in 1932 at the age of 42.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Entry in the genealogy database of the museum in Upernavik
2. ↑ 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) ).