Signe Rink

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Signe Rink

Nathalie Sophia Nielsine Caroline "Signe" Rink (born Møller ; born January 24, 1836 in Paamiut , † April 19, 1909 in Oslo ) was a Greenlandic - Danish writer and ethnographer .

Life

Signe Rink was born in 1836 as the daughter of the inspector Jørgen Nielsen Møller (1801-1862) and his wife Antonette Ernestine Constance Tommerup (1813-1891) in Paamiut, where her father worked at the time. After growing up with the Greenlandic language in Greenland, she was sent to Denmark to attend school in 1850. There she met the geographer and Greenland researcher Hinrich Johannes Rink (1819–1893), who was more than twice her age and who had just spent three years in northern Greenland. Signe was only 17 when the two married on April 28, 1853. In the same year they returned to Greenland, where their husband started to work for Den Kongelige Grønlandske Handel . On February 24, 1855, the couple's only child, their daughter Antoinette Margrethe, was born in Qaqortoq . She married the Norwegian chemist Ludvig Henrik Benjamin Schmelck (1857-1916) and both were the parents of Thyra Johanne Marie Schmelck (1884-1960), who in turn was married to the Anglo-Norwegian detective chemist Charles Mackenzie Bruff (1887-1955).

In 1858 Hinrich Johannes Rink was appointed Inspector of South Greenland as the successor to Signe's father and the couple moved to Nuuk . There they had lively contact with Samuel Kleinschmidt and Carl Janssen , from which, among other things, the first Greenlandic newspaper, the Atuagagdliutit , emerged in 1861 . In addition, the Forstanderskaber , the predecessor of the Provincial Council and the first body of co-determination and the legal system in colonial Greenland , emerged during this time .

In 1868 the Rinks left Greenland for health reasons and moved to Copenhagen, where Hinrich Johannes soon became director of the KGH. In 1882 they moved to Oslo, where Signe Rink began writing. She described life in Denmark's arctic colony in several books. In addition, in 1896 she revised Lars “Arĸaluk” Møller's collection of stories and translated Johannes “Hansêraĸ” Hansen's diary. She is considered to be the first expert on Greenlandic culture, which she introduced to European culture through her books. When her husband died, she began to collect the works of the artists Aron von Kangeq and Jens Kreutzmann . She finally died in 1909 at the age of 73 in Norway's capital Oslo.

Works

  • Grønlændere (1886)
  • Grønlændere and Danske i Grønland (1887)
  • Koloni-Idyller from Grønland (1888)
  • Kajakmænd (1896)
  • Vestgrønlænder Kateket Hansêraĸs dagbog om de hedenske Østgrønlændere (1900)
  • Fra det Grønland der gik (1902)

Web links

Commons : Signe Rink  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Church registers Qaqortoq 1827–1861 (Born girls p. 196)
  2. ^ Charles M. Bruff in the Norsk biografisk leksikon
  3. ↑ Biography in Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon
personal data
SURNAME Rink, Signe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rink, Nathalie Sophia Nielsine Caroline (real name); Møller, Nathalie Sophia Nielsine Caroline (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greenland-Danish writer and ethnographer
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Paamiut
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1909
Place of death Oslo