Niels Christoffer Winther Poulsen (October 3, 1902 – March 19, 1990) was a Faroese teacher and politician for the Home Rule Party ( fo, Sjálvstýrisflokkurin). Poulsen was born in

Skopun Skopun (pronounced ; da, Skopen) is a town in the Faroe Islands situated on the northern coast of Sandoy. Skopun is the second-largest town on the island. Skopun Municipality consists only of the town of Skopun. History Although the area has be ...

. He graduated as a teacher from the

Jonstrup Normal School Jonstrup is a suburban neighbourhood situated in Furesø Municipality on the west side of Hareskoven forest in the northwestern outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark. The original village has merged with the neighbouring villages of Måløv in Ballerup M ...

( da, Jonstrup Seminarium) in

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in 1928. Poulsen worked as a teacher in

Hvalba Hvalba ( da, Kvalbø) is a village and a municipality in the Faroe Islands, which consists of Hvalba, Nes-Hvalba and Sandvík. The village spreads around the bottom of a deep inlet, Hvalbiarfjørður, in the northeast of Suðuroy. Population Hv ...

from 1928 to 1931, in

Sumba Sumba ( id, Pulau Sumba) is an island in eastern Indonesia. It is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands and is in the province of East Nusa Tenggara. Sumba has an area of , and the population was 779,049 at the 2020 Census; the official estimate as a ...

from 1932 to 1940, and in Skopun from 1940 to 1969. He was the director of the

Faroese Teachers' Association The Faroese Teachers' Association ( fo, Føroya Lærarafelag) is a trade union for educators in the Faroe Islands. The association was established in 1898,Sigurðardóttir, Turið. 2009. Translation in Faroese Children's Literature. In: B. J. Epst ...

( fo, Føroya Lærarafelag) from 1956 to 1959. Poulsen served as the mayor of the Municipality of Sumba from 1935 to 1939, and later also for the Municipality of Skopun from 1950 to 1948. He was the municipal, school, and agriculture minister from 1959 to 1963, and then the local government, culture, and school minister from 1963 to 1967.

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