''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 was the first newspaper written in
Faroese. It was characterized by lexical
purism.
The paper's long-serving editor,
Rasmus Effersøe, was one of the leading men of his generation in the
Faroese independence movement
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 a ...
, 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 ...
.
[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
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Andrias Christian Evensen, 1906
See also
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Símun Mikkjal Zachariasen
Simon Michael Zachariasen (3 January 1853 – 16 December 1931), also known as Símun Mikkjal Zachariasen, was a Faroese teacher and social activist.
Zachariasen was born at Kirkja on the island of Fugloy. He was a driving force in the develop ...
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