''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 () and it was the first newspaper written in
Faroese. It was characterized by lexical
purism
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.
The paper's long-serving editor,
Rasmus Effersøe, was one of the leading men of his generation in the
Faroese independence movement, and he was one of the nine men that convened the
Christmas Meeting of 1888.
[Wylie, Jonathan. 1987. ''The Faroe Islands: Interpretations of History''. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, pp. 151–152.] Andrias Christian Evensen, who also served as editor during the short publication span in 1906, was one of the first to propagate the use of Faroese in education and church.
Editors
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Rasmus Effersøe, 1890–1901
*
Andrias Christian Evensen, 1906
See also
*
Símun Mikkjal Zachariasen
References
External links
Digitized copies of ''Føringatíðindi'' at Tímarit.is
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Newspapers published in the Faroe Islands
Newspapers established in 1890
1890s establishments in the Faroe Islands
Publications disestablished in 1906