Nikolaj Rosing

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Peter Lars Nikolaj Rosing (born April 4, 1912 in Maniitsoq , † August 16, 1976 in Copenhagen ) was a Greenlandic politician , teacher , translator and writer .

Life

Nikolaj Rosing trained as a teacher at Grønland's seminary in Nuuk . From 1932 to 1934 he received further training in Denmark and then taught in Aasiaat and Qaqortoq until 1943 . In 1938 he was a representative for Søren Kaspersen in the North Greenland State Council . From 1943 to 1959 he taught at his own training facility. In 1943 he was Isak Siegstad's representative in the regional council. In 1945 he published the spelling book Kalâtdlisut agdlangneĸ ( Greenlandic script ). From 1945 to 1954 he was a permanent member of the Provincial Council, but was represented by Lars Lundblad in 1949 . From 1951 to 1955 he was the chairman of the Nuuk Township Council . In 1953 he was chairman of the Greenland Language and Spelling Committee. From 1953 to 1957 he was in the information association administration. In 1956 he co-edited a book about Jonathan Petersen . From 1957 to 1958 he was an administrative member of Den Grønlandske Forlag and then a year at the Culture and Radio Council. In 1959 he moved to Denmark because he was taking up the position of the late Augo Lynge in the Folketing . He stayed there with interruptions from 1971 to 1973 until his death. In the 1960s he was a member of the Greenland Committee and the Greenland Council . He also translated several works into Greenlandic, such as Gunnar Gunnarsson's The People of Borg , Jules Verne's The Children of Captain Grant and Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of Baskerville . In 1952 he was made a knight , in 1964 a knight of the first degree of the Dannebrog Order. In Nuuk there is Nikolaj Rosingip Aqqutaa Street.

family

Nikolaj Rosing was the son of Svend Peter Salomon Rosing (1887-1957) and Kirstine Karoline Cicilie Lyberth (1887-1954). He is a great-great-great-grandson of Arent Christopher Heilmann . In 1935 he married Marie Ane Bodil Lynge (1911–2008), daughter of Niels Lynge (1880–1965) and Theodora AC Rosing (1883–1940). The couple had the following children:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mads Lidegaard: Nikolaj Rosing. In: Dansk biografisk leksikon . Gyldendal, 3rd edition, 1979–1984, accessed on July 11, 2018 (dk).
  2. ↑ Simon Ellefsen: Rosing. In: nose.dk. August 26, 2003, accessed on July 11, 2018 (dk).
personal data
SURNAME Rosing, Nikolaj
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rosing, Peter Lars Nikolaj
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greenlandic politician, teacher, translator and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Maniitsoq
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 1976
Place of death Copenhagen