Niels Lynge

Niels Peter Salomon Lynge (born July 20, 1880 in Nuuk ; † September 22, 1965 ibid) was a Greenlandic pastor , catechist , painter , poet and councilor .

Life

Niels Lynge studied at Grønlands Seminarium from 1894 to 1900 and then worked briefly in Kangerluarsussuaq . When Rasmus Berthelsen died a short time later , Christian Rosing moved to the seminary to replace him, so that the position of catechist in Nuuk became vacant. The young Niels Lynge was therefore called to Nuuk as a catechist, where he worked until 1922. He was then ordained a priest and was installed as a pastor in Maniitsoq before moving to Alluitsoq in 1931 . In 1943 he moved to Qeqertarsuatsiaat and retired in 1950.

He was one of the main figures of the Peqatigiinniat movement founded by Stephen Møller (1882-1909), which, as a religious movement, shaped a large part of the Greenlandic population from 1908 by awakening national identity and triggering a reform movement in the country, which, among other things, in 1911 resulted in the establishment of Grønlands Landsråd . Niels Lynge himself was a member of the regional council from 1917 to 1922, but was represented by Abel Egede in 1922 . Later he was again two terms from 1927 to 1938, where he was represented in 1932 by Ole Petersen .

Niels Lynge was also considered a poet, whose works can be found in hymn books, as well as an excellent painter who is particularly valued for his use of color. People brought black and white photographs of their hometowns to him and wished that they turned into colorful paintings on the canvas. In his house at Gertrud Rasksvej 24 ( → map ) he had painted the walls - allegedly to prevent his children from stealing the paintings - with landscape motifs from the region around Nuuk and put golden wooden frames around them or painted them so deceptively real that even a king Frederik IX. got up when he visited in 1960 to check if they were real or painted. The house was later bought and is now open to the public as part of the Nuuk Art Museum .

In 1931 he received the Kongelige Belønningsmedalje and in 1958 the Knight's Cross of the Dannebrog Order .

family

Niels Lynge was the son of the cooper Carl Frederik Mads Lynge (1841-1917) and his wife Juliane Ane Sophie Cathrine Rasmussen (1841-1913). Through his mother he was a great-grandson of Christian Alexander Platou (1779–1827). His nephew was Christian Berthelsen (1916–2015). Niels was married twice. His first marriage was on July 29, 1901 in Nuuk, Ane Theodora Cecilie Rosing (1883–1940), daughter of the commercial administrator Peter Frederik Rosing (1835–?) And his wife Haldore Helene Margrethe Karoline Petrussen (1842–?). The following children were born from the marriage:

• Klaus Jonathan Nikolaj Peter Lynge (1902–1981)
• Pavia Josva Regnar Lynge (1904-1906)
• Hans Louis Abel Lynge (1906–1988)
• Karoline Amalie Lynge (1909–?), Married. with Knud Dam
• Marie Ane Bodil Lynge (1911–2008), married. with Nikolaj Rosing (1912–1976)
• Ane Mariane Jensine Lynge (1913–?), Married. with Adolf Holm (1914–?)
• Pavia Efraim Mads Lynge (1915-1958)
• Cecilie Ane Andrea Lynge (1917–1999), married. with Henning Lund (1917–1998)
• Mads Søren Johannes Gert Lynge (1921–?)
• Frederik Stegemann Lynge (1924–?)
• Kristian Diderik Vallentin Lynge (1926–?)

After his first wife died in 1940 at the age of 57, he married the widow Karoline Margrethe Haldora Dorthea Sommer, nee. Rosing, (1906–?), Daughter of Karl Julius August Rosing (1876–1945) and Magdalene Kristine Katrine Heilmann (1879–1935). The marriage resulted in two more children:

• Magdaline Karen Theodora Lynge (* 1948)
• Lisa Ane-Soffiaaraq Lynge (* 1950)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Palle Koch: Grønland . Gyldendal , Copenhagen 1975, ISBN 978-87-02-24844-9 , pp. 183 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
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) ).
3. ↑ Niels Lynges Hus at upernavik.museum.gl
4. ↑ ^{a b} biography in Dansk Biografisk Leksikon
5. ↑ ^{a b} Family Lynge von Bendt Lynge (1901–1987) (.pdf)
6. ↑ Niels H. Frandsen: Nogle Grønlandske slægter . Forlaget Atuagkat, Nuuk 2011, ISBN 978-87-92554-22-2 , pp. 133 .