Otto Rosing (writer)

Otto Pavia Jørgen Rosing (born April 6, 1896 in Nuuk , † December 24, 1965 in Aasiaat ) was a Greenlandic writer , catechist , pastor , painter and sculptor .

Life

Otto Rosing was born in Nuuk but grew up in East Greenland , where his father worked as a missionary . When he returned to West Greenland , he began to attend Grønland's seminary , which he completed in 1918. He then moved to Denmark to continue his training as a catechist . He then worked as head catechist in Greenland before he was ordained by Bishop Christian Ludwigs (1877-1930) in 1923 , so that he himself, like his brother Peter (1892-1965), could work as a pastor. In 1934 he became Peter's successor in Ammassalik , where he preached until 1940. He then returned to West Greenland and worked there until his retirement in 1955. He then moved to Aasiaat, where he could fully devote himself to literature and art.

He had written three biographies before. The first he wrote in 1933 about the German missionary and poet Carl Julius Spindler (1838-1918), in the second he described the life of the Greenlandic expedition member Hans Hendrik (1834-1889) in 1948 and the third in 1949 dealt with the German-Greenlandic linguist Samuel Kleinschmidt (1814-1884). In 1952 he wrote the book Inûsugtunut isumaliutssat (according to the new spelling Inuusuttunut isumaliutissat , German about For young people what they should think about ), a guide to problem solving for young people. As a painter, he illustrated the Greenlandic alphabet book, which he had revised himself. In 1955 he wrote the novel Taseralik ( German  place of puddles ), which is mainly about a love story on the summer place (Aasivik) between Aasiaat and Sisimiut , where the population traditionally came together to celebrate festivals or to do business. Between 1957 and 1961 he published the two-part Angákortaligssuit ( Angakkortalissuit , German about the people of the great necromancers ), which deals with East Greenland family histories. In 1963 he wrote the history book for Aasiaat's 200th birthday. He also painted pictures and created sculptural works of art.

In 1952 he was made a knight of the Order of Dannebrog .

He died on Christmas Eve 1965 in his adopted home at the age of 69. After his death, two more books were edited from his manuscripts . One was the 1967 novel Gulunnguaq (a woman's name) about a Greenlandic witch hunt and the other was the book Tikipoq about his memories.

family

Otto Pavia Jørgen was the son of the missionary Hans Christian Theodor Rosing (1866-1944) and his wife Malene Karoline Klara Kreutzmann (1869-1943). Through his mother he was the grandson of the painter Jens Kreutzmann (1828–1899). Through his father, he was the nephew of the artist Peter Rosing (1871-1938) and the Provincial Councilor Karl Rosing (1878-?). His brothers included the pastor and painter Svend Peter Kristian Rosing (1892–1965) and the artist Kâle Rosing (1911–1974). He himself married Sara Gertrud Vilhelmine Birgitte Siegstad (1900–?), Called Sâlãnguaĸ , daughter of the blacksmith Abel Peter Gabriel Siegstad (1864–1942) and his first wife Eleonora Kirstine Marie Charlotte Jørgensen (1865–1942) in Aalborg on May 23, 1923. 1901). The marriage resulted in son Jens Rosing (1925-2008), who was also a well-known writer and painter.

He comes from a family full of Danish trade administrators in Greenland. His father served as a catechist, missionary and pastor all over Greenland. His father Peter Frederik Rosing (1835-1911) was, among other things, colonial administrator in Qeqertarsuatsiaat . This was the son of London- born Hans Rosing (1803-1865), who was mainly employed by the merchant in Ilulissat . His father, in turn, was Ulrik Frederik Rosing (1776–1841), a Norwegian pastor of the Danish community in England , who himself had officers and scholars in his family. Otto's great-grandfather Hans was married to the daughter of the businessman Johannes Winding (1774–1833). Via his mother, Otto was a great-grandson of the trade assistant Johan Ernst Kretzmer, to whom the entire Kreutzmann family in Greenland goes back.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Church records Nuuk 1887–1901 (Born boys p. 12)
2. ↑ Kirsten Thisted: Greenland literature . In: Jürg Glauser (Hrsg.): Scandinavian literary history . Springer-Verlag , Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-476-00037-8 , p. 470 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
3. ↑ Biography in Dansk biografisk leksikon
4. ↑ Biography in Den Store Danske
5. ^ Church records Nuuk 1887–1901 (Married people, p. 99)
6. ^ Church book Ålborg Budolfi Sogn Married 1919–1929 p. 162
7. ^ Obituary by Mikael Gam in the Tidsskriftet Grønland (.pdf)
8. ^ Church books Aasiaat 1888–1903 (Married people, p. 101)
9. ↑ Hans Christian Theodor Rosing in Biografisk Leksikon for Grønland
10. ^ Peter Frederik Rosing in Biografisk Leksikon for Grønland
11. ^ Hans Rosing in Biografisk Leksikon for Grønland
12. ↑ Rosing, Ulrik Frederik . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 14 : Resen – Saxtrup . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1900, p. 332 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
13. ↑ Pedigree of Ulrik Frederik Rosing at vestraat.net
14. ^ Johannes Winding in Biografisk Leksikon for Grønland
15. ^ Johan Ernst Kretzmer in the Biografisk Leksikon for Grønland