Rikard Long
Richard Sigmund Long [ ˈɹɪkːaɹd ] (born January 23, 1889 in Tórshavn , Faroe Islands , † December 16, 1977 there , often called Rikard Long ) was a Faroese teacher, politician, poet and literary critic .
Teachers and politicians
He worked as a teacher from 1914 to 1916 and from 1919 to 1920 at the Tórshavnar skiparaskúli , and from 1921 to 1954 at the Føroya Millum- og Realskúli and the Føroya Læraraskúli in Tórshavn.
As a politician he was from 1943 to 1958 a member of the Fólkaflokkurin in Løgting and sat from 1950 to 1954 as minister and later also as deputy. Prime Minister in the state government Kristian Djurhuus I .
Poet and writer
Rikard Long was known early on in his homeland as a writer of sensitive love poems (debut 1914). As editor of the leading Faroese literary magazine Varðin from its founding in 1921, he gained a reputation as the country's literary critic over the next two decades .
In 1962 he published his translation of the Faroese saga from Old Norse into New Faroese (together with Heðin Brú ). In 1976 Rikard Long received the Faroe Islands Literature Prize .
Web links
- Løgtingið 150 - Hátíðarrit, bind 2 (2002), page 314. (PDF) . logting.fo. Archived from the original on September 27, 2006. (in Faroese)
- Føroya løgmenn og landsstýri síðan 1948 (member of the government since 1948) . tinganes.fo. Archived from the original on August 13, 2011. (in Faroese)
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| SURNAME | Long, Rikard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Long, Richard Sigmund |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Faroese poet and literary critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 23, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tórshavn , Faroe Islands |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 16, 1977 |
| Place of death | Tórshavn , Faroe Islands |