Tobias Mørch

Severin Christian Tobias Simeon Mørch (born September 15, 1840 in Uummannaq , † September 6, 1916 in Upernavik ) was a Greenlandic catechist and pastor .

Life

Tobias Mørch was the son of the catechist Hans Peter Mørch (1808–1876) and his wife Johanne Birgithe Charlotte Møller (1811–1872). His father was the son of colonial administrator Johan Lorentz Mørch (1783–1834). He attended school in Uummannaq from 1846 to 1855. Then he came to the seminary in Ilulissat . He completed his training in 1858 and was sent to Denmark for further training, where they wanted to make him the first properly ordained Greenlander. However, only a year later he returned to Greenland and became head catechist in Upernavik. There he married Marie Regine Lynge (1850–1917), daughter of the hunter Jacob Georg Nielsen Lynge (1828–1874) and his wife Sophie Matilde Cortzen (1831–1898) on December 2, 1866. From the marriage, among other things, the future councilor Ole Jakob Hans Mørch (1867-1923) emerged.

In 1872 he traveled again to Denmark, where he was taught in Copenhagen , and on May 13, 1874 he was actually ordained. 60 years earlier, only the Greenlander Frederik Berthelsen had been ordained out of need without the appropriate training. He stayed in Upernavik, where he worked as a pastor until 1881. From 1881 to 1882 he was pastor in Ilulissat, then moved to Aasiaat before returning to Upernavik in 1887. In 1908 he retired. From 1913 to 1914 he returned again on a makeshift basis and died two years later shortly before his 76th birthday. In 1895 Tobias Mørch was appointed Dannebrogsmand . In 1903 he published the first original collection of sermons in Greenland, Oqalutsit sapâtine nagdliútunilo ukiume iluitsume .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} biography in Dansk Biografisk Leksikon
2. ↑ ^{a b} Entry in the genealogy database of the museum in Upernavik
3. ↑ Biography in Biografisk Leksikon for Grønland