Kristoffer Lynge

Kristoffer Jonathan Ludvig Lynge (born November 26, 1894 in Nuuk , † September 19, 1967 in Copenhagen ) was a Greenlandic editor , printer , director , writer , translator and national councilor .

Life

Kristoffer Lynge trained as a printer in his hometown and continued to study in Copenhagen from 1914 to 1917 and from 1925 to 1926. In 1917 he took over the printing company in Nuuk, founded by Hinrich Johannes Rink in 1857 . In 1922 he succeeded Lars Møller as editor of Atuagagdliutit . In 1942 he co-founded Grønlands Radio , the predecessor of Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa , and he headed the Greenland-speaking section of the station. In 1952 he gave up the printing company and the Atuagagdliutit and moved to Denmark , where he began to work as the head of the Greenland department of Danmarks Radio , which he continued until 1964.

From 1916 to 1933 Kristoffer Lynge was a representative of the Greenland Literary Society. From 1945 to 1952 he headed the Greenland Public Enlightenment Association. As a writer he gave a. a. published a three-volume collection of myths from 1938 to 1939. He also translated Danish books into Greenlandic and was involved in the new translation of the New Testament and in the publication of a dictionary in 1960.

Kristoffer Lynge was also politically active. He sat for many years in the local council and from 1923 to 1926 and from 1933 to 1943 in the regional council, but was temporarily represented by Jonathan Petersen and Lars Egede . From 1948 to 1950 he was a member of the Greenland Commission .

In 1950 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Dannebrog Order. He died in Copenhagen in 1967 at the age of 72.

family

Kristoffer Lynge was the illegitimate son of the Danish volunteer Jens Aage Bergh (1869–?), Son of the lithographer Theodor Bergh (1830–1907), and Marie Henriette Agnete Lynge (1867–1943). On July 1, 1927, he married the Danish nurse Ragnhild Bugge (1901–1962) in Nuuk, who was the daughter of the colonial administrator Konrad Olsen Bugge (1862–1937) and his wife Hedevig Clausen (1873–1937). His brother-in-law was Aage Bugge (1896–1979). The marriage resulted in the son Finn Lynge (1933-2014), who was the only Greenlander in the European Parliament .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} biography in Dansk biografisk leksikon
2. ^ Obituary by Frederik Nielsen in the Atuagagdliutit of September 28, 1967
3. ↑ Niels H. Frandsen: Nogle Grønlandske slægter . Forlaget Atuagkat, Nuuk 2011, ISBN 978-87-92554-22-2 , pp. 163 .