Robert Petersen (Eskimologist)

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Robert Karl Frederik Petersen (born April 18, 1928 in Maniitsoq ) is a Greenlandic Eskimologist , dialectologist , anthropologist , university professor and university rector .

Life

Career

Robert Petersen finished his training at Grønland's seminarium in 1948 and continued his training in Denmark until 1953 . He taught at the Nuuk Seminary himself before graduating as mag in 1967 . art. at the University of Copenhagen . In 1969 he became Amanuensis and in 1972 a lecturer . In 1975 he became professor of Eskimology (Greenlandic linguistics and cultural studies ) in Copenhagen , making him the first Greenlander to hold a professorship. When the Ilisimatusarfik was founded as Inuit Instituttet in 1983 , Robert Petersen was appointed its first director. With the conversion into his own university, he was appointed first rector before he retired in 1995.

From 1969 to 1973, Robert Petersen was an advisor to the Language and Spelling Committee of Grønlands Landsråd , from which the Greenlandic spelling reform emerged . From 1970 to 1979 he was also a member of the advisory committee for social research in Greenland and from 1979 in the Greenland Research Committee. From 1976 to 1994 he was a member of the Commission for Scientific Investigations in Greenland and from 1976 to 1983 in the Place Name Committee, which is responsible for the naming of geographical objects in Greenland. In 1973 he was also a member of the executive committee of the Arctic Oil and Gas Congress in Le Havre , in the same year Vice-President of the Arctic Peoples Conference in Copenhagen and in 1975 a member of the Political Council at the conference of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples . In 1978 he was President and in 1979 Vice President of the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Expert Meeting. From 1973 to 1976 he was a member of the Inuit Language Commission and from 1973 to 1981 co-edited the International Journal of American Linguistics . From 1976 he was a committee member for anthropological research in the Nordic Council and also an administrative member of the Nordisk Samisk Institute and Grønlands Sprognævn. Both Grønlands Sprognævn and the place name committee are now part of the Oqaasileriffik .

Awards

Robert Petersen holds honorary doctorates from Université Laval (since 1992) and from Ilisimatusarfik (since 2010) and a member of the Royal Gustav Adolfs Academy for Swedish Folk Culture . In addition, he received the 1977 popular science prize of the Danish Writers' Association, in 1993 the Greenland Culture Award , 2003 Rinkmedaljen and 2005 prisen ebb Munck-to. Furthermore, he is a knight of the Dannebrog Order and he received the Nersornaat in silver on October 16, 1996 .

family

Robert Petersen is the son of office assistant and regional councilor Ole Levi Albrekt Petersen (1894–1979) and his wife Marie Karoline Jakobine Rosing (1898–1980). His brothers were the university director Hans Christian Petersen (1925–2015) and the pastor and state councilor Ricard Petersen (1931–2014). On February 9, 1957, he married the Danish nurse Inge Hansen (1929–1997), daughter of the worker Lars P. Hansen († 1976) and his wife Ingeborg Corneliussen († 2001).

Works (selection)

  • 1971: Det ændrede samfund and børnenes situation
  • 1974: Perspektiver for minedrift i Grønland (14 articles)
  • 1976: Continuity and discontinuity in the political development of modern Greenland
  • 1976: Nogle træk i udviklingen af ​​det grønlandske sprog, efter contacts med den danske culture, and danske sprog
  • 1977: Om etnicitet og ejendomsretten til jorden
  • 1977: The West Greenlandic cultural imperialism in East Greenland: cultural imperialism and cultural identity
  • 1982: Some ethical questions in connection with research activity in asymmetrical ethical situation
  • 1982: Substistence hunting: the Greenland case
  • 1982: Om klimasvingninger og Grønlands forhistorie
  • 1988: Ilisimatusarfik, University of Greenland
  • 2003: Settlements, kinship and hunting grounds in traditional Greenland: a comparative study of local experiences from Upernavik and Ammassalik

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d biography in Dansk biografisk leksikon
  2. ↑ a b Torben Lodberg: Grønlands Grønne Bog 1988 . Ed .: Grønlands hjemmestyres informationkontor. Copenhagen 1988, ISBN 87-982902-9-0 , pp. 69 .
  3. ^ A b c Jan René Westh: Ordenshistorisk Tidsskrift . Ed .: Ordenshistorisk Selskab . tape 36 , December 2010, ISSN  0904-5554 , p. 59 .
  4. ↑ Church records Maniitsoq 1923–1933 (Born boys p. 22)
personal data
SURNAME Petersen, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petersen, Robert Karl Frederik (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greenlandic Eskimologist, dialectologist, anthropologist, university professor and university rector
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Maniitsoq