Djóni Isaksen (September 12, 1849 – April 20, 1912), also known as Djóni í Geil (), was a Faroese craftsman, editor, and politician. Isaksen was born in

Tórshavn Tórshavn (; lit. "Thor's harbour"), usually locally referred to as simply ''Havn'', is the capital and largest city of the Faroe Islands. It is located in the southern part on the east coast of Streymoy. To the northwest of the city lies the ...

. He was a champion of

Faroese independence The Faroese independence movement ( fo, Føroyska Tjóðskaparrørslan), or the Faroese national movement (), is a political movement which seeks the establishment of the Faroe Islands as a sovereign state outside Denmark. Reasons for complete ...

, and he was one of the nine men that convened the

Christmas Meeting of 1888 The Christmas Meeting of 1888Benati, Chiara. 2009. Faroese: A National Language under Siege? In: Susanna Pertot et al. (eds.), ''Rights, Promotion and Integration Issues for Minority Languages in Europe'', pp. 189–196. Basingstoke: Palgrave M ...

.Debes, Hans Jacob. 1993. ''Politiska søga Føroya'', 1814-1906. Tórshavn: Føroya skúlabókagrunnur. Djóni í Geil was elected to the

Faroese Parliament Faroese ( ) or Faroish ( ) may refer to anything pertaining to the Faroe Islands, e.g.: *the Faroese language * the Faroese people Faroese people or Faroe Islanders ( fo, føroyingar; da, færinger) are a North Germanic peoples, North Germanic ...

as a representative from Suðurstreymoy for

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1885 Events January–March * January 3– 4 – Sino-French War – Battle of Núi Bop: French troops under General Oscar de Négrier defeat a numerically superior Qing Chinese force, in northern Vietnam. * January 4 – ...

1887 Events January–March * January 11 – Louis Pasteur's anti-rabies treatment is defended in the Académie Nationale de Médecine, by Dr. Joseph Grancher. * January 20 ** The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Har ...

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1899 Events January 1899 * January 1 ** Spanish rule ends in Cuba, concluding 400 years of the Spanish Empire in the Americas. ** Queens and Staten Island become administratively part of New York City. * January 2 – **Bolivia sets up a c ...

and

1901 Events January * January 1 – The Crown colony, British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria (Australia), Victoria and Western Australia Federation of Australia, federate as the Australia, ...

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1906 Events January–February * January 12 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: A nationalistic coalition of merchants, religious leaders and intellectuals in Persia forces the shah Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar to grant a constitution, ...

. He was active in the

temperance movement The temperance movement is a social movement promoting temperance or complete abstinence from consumption of alcoholic beverages. Participants in the movement typically criticize alcohol intoxication or promote teetotalism, and its leaders emph ...

, among other things serving as the editor of the temperance newsletter '' Dúgvan'' from 1899 to 1907. He was also among those that established the newspaper ''

Tingakrossur ''Tingakrossur'' was a Faroese newspaper. The first copy of the paper was published on January 1, 1901Wylie, Jonathan. 1987. ''The Faroe Islands: Interpretations of History''. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, p. 157. and it ceased publ ...

'', and his son Christen Holm-Isaksen (a.k.a. Kristin í Geil, 1877–1935) became the paper's first editor in 1891.Debes, Hans Jacob. 1982. ''Nú er tann stundin ...: tjóðskaparrørsla og sjálvstýrispolitikkur til 1906, við søguligum baksýni''. Tórshavn: Føroya skúlabókagrunnur, pp. 217–225. In 1988, Djóni í Geil was featured on a Faroe Islands 3.00 króna stamp commemorating the 1888 Christmas Meeting.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Geil, Djoni Members of the Løgting Faroese journalists People from Tórshavn 1849 births 1912 deaths 19th-century Faroese people