Knud Balle
Knud Balle (born July 28, 1877 in Nuuk ; † July 23, 1928 there ) was a Greenlandic - Danish pastor and provost .
Life
Knud Balle was the son of the Danish missionary Nikolaj Edinger Balle (1839-1900) and his Greenlandic wife Kathrine Justine Fleischer (1849-1918). His older brother was Frederik Balle (1871-1939). On May 17, 1905, Knud Balle married Esther Helweg-Larsen (1881–1906), daughter of the provost Vilhelm Ludvig Larsen (1850–1927) and his wife Thyra Lorentzen (1852–1906), who died shortly after the wedding in Viborg . On March 27, 1912 he married Anna Budtz Jørgensen (1878-1948), daughter of the factory owner Otto Budtz Jørgensen (1839-1913) and his wife Karen Marie Christiane Mikkelsen (1840) in Christiansted , which was also a Danish colony at the time -1907). The son Holger Balle (1917-2010) emerged from the second marriage .
Knud Balle studied theology from 1897 to 1904. On May 31, 1905, he was ordained and appointed helper in Upernavik , before he succeeded Tobias Mørch as pastor in 1908 . In 1910 he was transferred to Nuuk and two years later appointed provost of Greenland. When the idea of dividing the Greenland provost in two was considered, Knud Balle resigned in protest in 1918. In 1926/27, when the plan had not been implemented, he took over the office again, but died only two years later a few days before his 51st birthday.
Knud Balle wrote many newspaper and magazine articles in Danish and Greenlandic and also worked as a translator. So he translated, for example, The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan into Greenlandic. In 1921 he was made a knight of the Order of Dannebrog .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography in Dansk Biografisk Leksikon
- ↑ Biography in Biografisk Leksikon for Grønland
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Balle, Knud |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greenland-Danish pastor and provost |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 28, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuuk |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 23, 1928 |
| Place of death | Nuuk |