Peter Mathæussen

Peter Abraham Adam Mathæussen (born March 5, 1892 in Narsaq near Nuuk , † April 6, 1949 in Saqqaq ) was a Greenlandic catechist and councilor .

Peter Mathæussen was the son of Vittus Manasse Mikias Andreas Ephraim Matthæussen and his wife Juditha Regina Dorkas. He attended Grønland's seminarium from 1906 to 1912 . He was then employed as a catechist in Qoornoq . After four years he moved to Ilulissat and then to Saqqaq. He was later a catechist in East Greenland in Kulusuk for ten years before returning to Saqqaq. In 1945 he was elected to Grønlands Landsråd for five years . On April 6, 1949 he died together with his son-in-law Otto Jensen and the catechist Isak Steenholdt of poisoning caused by spoiled seal meat. He was the father of the kayaker Manasse Mathæussen (1915–1989).

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Dødsfald in the Grønlandsposten from April 15, 1949
^ Church records Nuuk 1827-1886 (married p. 320)
↑ 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	Mathæussen, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mathæussen, Peter Abraham Adam (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greenlandic catechist and councilor
DATE OF BIRTH	March 5, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH	Narsaq at Nuuk
DATE OF DEATH	April 6, 1949
Place of death	Saqqaq

[gp-1] Dødsfald in the Grønlandsposten from April 15, 1949

[2] Church records Nuuk 1827-1886 (married p. 320)

[3] 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) ).