Ole Mørch (politician)

Ole Jakob Hans Mørch (born October 11, 1867 in Upernavik ; † March 17, 1923 ibid) was a Greenlandic catechist and councilor .

Ole Mørch was the eldest son of Pastor Severin Christian Tobias Simeon Mørch (1840-1916) and his wife Mariane Regine Lynge (1850-1917). He was married to Karoline Jakobine Marie Petersen (1875–1911), daughter of the hunter Christian Mathias Ole Petersen (1840–1898) and his wife Johanne Marie Magdalene (1841–1893). The marriage had six children. After the death of his wife on January 19, 1913, he married Benigne Sara Rebekka Løvstrøm (1872–1926), daughter of the catechist Amajut Paul Simon Løvstrøm (1841–1897) and his wife Mariane Beathe Magdalene (1846–1908).

The Ole Mørch working as a catechist and hunters in 1911 for a term of the first North Greenlandic Provincial elected. In 1914 he did not attend the meeting. He died of a heart condition in 1923 at the age of 65.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Entry in the genealogy database of the museum in Upernavik
↑ 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) ).

personal data
SURNAME	Mørch, Ole
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mørch, Ole Jakob Hans (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greenlandic catechist and councilor
DATE OF BIRTH	October 11, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH	Upernavik
DATE OF DEATH	March 17, 1923
Place of death	Upernavik

[u-1] Entry in the genealogy database of the museum in Upernavik

[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) ).