Mikkjal a Ryggi

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Mikkjal a Ryggi
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Mikkjal Dánjalsson á Ryggi (born October 17, 1879 in Miðvágur , Faroe Islands , † October 20, 1956 in Tórshavn ) was a Faroese teacher , writer and politician of the Sjálvstýrisflokkurin party, which fought for self-government . He lived in Miðvágur and Gásadalur .

Life

After attending elementary school in his hometown and high school in Tórshavn, he went for further training to Denmark , where he worked until 1901 in first of 1900 Hillerød the Frederiksborg- College (now Grundtvigs Højskole visited) and then from 1901 to 1902 in Askov the local folk high school there.

He then went back to the Faroe Islands and worked as a teacher in Bøur and Gásadalur until 1945 . From 1930 to 1933 he was also chairman of the Faroese teachers' association ( Føroya Lærarafelag ).

In political life he was mayor of Miðvágur municipality from 1915 to 1919 and sat as a member of the Sjálvstýrisflokkurin from 1924 to 1928 in Løgting .

However, he is best known for his work as a writer and poet. In addition to writing numerous song texts, especially religious ones, he also wrote school books (regional studies, animal and plant studies) in the Faroese language . In his time there were hardly any. He was also helped by the knowledge of drawing that he had acquired from the American painter and botanist Elizabeth Taylor when she lived in the Faroe Islands for a certain time. Mikkjal á Ryggi also wrote the first Faroese village history.

In old age he became permanently ill and spent the last seven years of his life as a patient in the tuberculosis sanatorium in Hoydalar .

family

Mikkjal á Ryggi was born in Miðvágur in 1879. His parents were Dánjal Pauli Michelsen from Miðvágur and Maren Margrethe Petersen from Sandavágur . Mikkjal was married to Bina Joensen from Gásadalur . However, the marriage remained childless.

Works (selection)

  • Landalæra I (with A. Thomsen) (1926)
  • Dýralæra I (1935)
  • Miðvinga søga (1940)
  • Fuglabókin (1951)
  • Yrkingar (1954)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Løgtingið 150 - Hátíðarrit, bind 2 (2002), page 345. (PDF) . logting.fo. Archived from the original on September 27, 2006. (in Faroese)
personal data
SURNAME Ryggi, Mikkjal á
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ryggi, Mikkjal Dánjalsson á (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Faroese teacher, writer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Miðvágur , Faroe Islands
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1956
Place of death Tórshavn