Mathias Storch

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Michael Mathias Johannes Storch (born April 21, 1883 in Manermiut ; † November 21, 1957 in Ilulissat ) was a Greenlandic pastor , provost , writer and councilor .

Life

Mathias Storch was the son of the hunter David Hans Gustav Storch (1851–?) And his wife Salomine Sofie Ane Johanne Sybille Rafaelsen (1860–?). He attended Grønland's seminary in Nuuk from 1900 to 1906 and received further theological training in Denmark, where he lived for three years with Bishop Christian Ludwigs in Aalborg . In 1909 he returned to Greenland, where he worked in Narsarmijit . On July 18, 1909, he married in Nuuk Ane Jensine Emilie Berthelsen (1889-1913), daughter of the pastor Lars Berthelsen and Laura Johanne Frederikke Berthelsen. On May 16, 1915, he married Emilie Justine Margrethe Johanne Frederiksen (1893–1955), daughter of the hunter Frederik Johan Nikolai Frederiksen and Josefine Bothilde Louise Thale Terkelsen, in Ilulissat.

He was ordained in 1910 . He worked as a pastor for a short time in southern Greenland and then in northern Greenland. In 1920 he moved to Ilulissat, where he became provost of North Greenland. In 1927 he became Vice Provost of Greenland, which he remained until his retirement in 1953.

Storch supported the national revival movement Peqatigiinniat and took an active part in public debates, campaigning for the rights of the Greenlanders and calling for their equality with the Danes. In 1921 he was elected to the Greenland Commission. From 1927 to 1932 he was an elected member of the North Greenland State Council , but was represented by Boye Thomsen in 1929 and 1931 .

He made his debut as an author in 1914 with the novel Sinnattugaq (The Dream). The book was "primarily a form of political discussion literature related to the future of Greenland". In addition to church history texts, he published the pamphlet Strejflys over Grønland in Danish in 1930 (Streiflicht über Greenland).

Mathias Storch became the 1921 Knights of the Order of the Dannebrog appointed and 1947 for Dannebrogsmand . He died in 1957 at the age of 74.

Sinnattugaq, the first Greenlandic novel

Sinnattugaq (title of the first edition in old spelling: Singnagtugaĸ ) was published in 1914. The novel caused outrage on the one hand and became literary history on the other. In this book, Storch addressed the problems of Greenlandic society in an unusually open manner: poor education, superstition, forced marriages and the distrust between Danes and Greenlanders. The title suggests a vision of the future; Pavia, the protagonist of the novel, dreams of what Greenland would be like 200 years later in the year 2105: Greenlanders with bilingual education hold key positions in Greenland's economy as well as in politics, church and education. Inspired by this, Pavia continues to fight for it after his awakening.

“ The starting point for the contemporary novel is the deplorable state of Greenland, caused by the Danish administration and the behavior of the Greenlanders. [...] The novel illustrates the connection between a person's personal development to become a religiously educated and nationally conscious individual on the one hand and the development of society as a whole on the other. "

- Kirsten Thisted

The Greenland-Danish polar researcher and ethnologist Knud Rasmussen translated the book into Danish. The Danish edition was published by Gyldendal in 1915 under the title En Grønlænders Drøm (One Greenlander's Dream).

Works

  • 1914: Singnagtugaĸ (digitized version of the first edition; .pdf)
  • 1930: Strejflys over Grønland
  • 1940: Nãmagsivoĸ

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Aasiaat church records 1866–1888 (Born boys p. 32)
  2. ↑ a b c d e biography in Dansk Biografisk Leksikon
  3. ↑ Church records Nuuk 1902-1915 (married p. 143)
  4. ↑ Church records Ilulissat 1910–1925 (Married people, p. 140)
  5. ↑ 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) ).
  6. ^ Moritz Schramm: Search for identity. On contemporary Greenlandic literature . In: Clams . Annual journal for literature and graphics , No. 45, Viersen 2005, ISSN  0085-3593
  7. ↑ Kirsten Thisted: Hvem går qivittoq? Campen om et litterært symbol eller relations Danmark - Greenland i postcolonial belysning. In: TijdSchrift voor Skandinavistiek . No. 2/2004, ISSN  0168-2148 .
  8. ↑ Kirsten Thisted: Greenland literature . In: Scandinavian literary history . Metzler, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-476-01973-X
personal data
SURNAME Storch, Mathias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Storch, Michael Mathias Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greenlandic pastor, provost, writer and councilor
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Manermiut
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1957
Place of death Ilulissat