Andrias Christian Evensen (December 6, 1874 – October 21, 1917) was a
Faroese priest, editor, writer, and politician for the
Home Rule Party ( fo, Sjálvstýrisflokkurin). Together with
Jákup Dahl, he was one of the first to propagate the use of
Faroese, including as a church language in preference to
Danish
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Evensen was born in
Viðareiði
Viðareiði (pronounced , literally: ''Wood-Isthmus'', da, Viderejde) is the northernmost settlement in the Faroe Islands and lies on the Island of Viðoy, which belongs to the Norðoyar Region.
Geography
It lies on an isthmus with high mountain ...
.
[Opielka, Andrea Susanne. 2011. ''Danse- og sanglege på Færøerne: oprindelse, udbredelse, nutidig tradition''. Tórshavn: Fróðskapur / Faroe University Press, p. 367.] He received his ''
examen artium'' certification in 1894 and the degree of ''
cand.theol.
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'' in 1901. Evensen became the parish priest in
Sandur in 1902, and then served as the
dean for the Faroe Islands from April 1917 until his death in October that year. He became the editor of the newspaper ''
Føringatíðindi
''Føringatíðindi'' (The Faroes Journal) was a Faroese newspaper. It was published from January 1890 to December 1901, and then again from January to December 1906. The newspaper was the organ of the Faroese Society ( fo, Føringafelag) and it ...
'' in 1906. Evensen was active in the
Løgting
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The name literally means "''Law Thing''"—that is, a law assembly—and derives from Old Norse ''l ...
as a parliamentary representative from
Sandoy from 1908 to 1917. He eventually broke away from the
Home Rule Party ( fo, Sjálvstýrisflokkurin) and was an independent representative during his last year in the Løgting.
[Wylie, Jonathan. 1987. ''The Faroe Islands: Interpretations of History''. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, p. 168]
Together with the writer
Rasmus Rasmussen and the archivist and politician
Anton Degn, he established the publisher Hitt føroyska Bókamentafelagið (The Faroese Book Cultivation Association) in 1907. Evensen died in
Copenhagen
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.
Bibliography
*1899: ''Smásangir og sálmar'' (Short Songs and Psalms; editor)
*1900: ''Skálkaleikur. Mortansmessuteiti'' (Roguish Games. Saint Martin's Evening Cabaret)
*1902: ''Búreisingur'' (The Settler; journal, only six issues)
*1906: ''Føroysk orðabók, 1.–10.hft.'' (Faroese Dictionary, vols. 1–10; 1905–1906)
*1906: ''Føroysk lesibók fyri eldri børn'' (Faroese Reader for Older Children)
*1907: ''Stavingarbók'' (Spelling Book)
*1907: ''Stavingarbók og lesibók fyri yngri børn'' (Spelling Book and Reader for Younger Children)
*1908: ''Lesibók fyri yngri børn'' (Reader for Younger Children)
*1910: ''Kvæðabók I'' (Folk Ballads Volume I)
*1911:
Lesibók' (Reader)
*1912: ''Lesibók til læraraskúlan'' (Reader for Teacher Training School)
*1914: ''Savn til Føroya søgu í 16. øld'' (Anthology of Sixteenth-Century Faroese Sagas; 1908–1914)
*1963: ''Harubókin'' (a reader for younger children)
References
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Members of the Løgting
Faroese Lutheran clergy
Faroese writers
Faroese editors
1874 births
1917 deaths