Rasmus Christoffer Effersøe (May 30, 1857 – March 23, 1916) was a Faroese agronomist, poet, and politician. Effersøe was born in

Trongisvágur Trongisvágur ( da, Trangisvåg) is a village on the island of Suduroy in the Faroe Islands. Trongisvágur is the village in the bottom of Trongisvágsfjørður (fjord) on the east coast of Suduroy. Trongisvágur and the neighbouring villages o ...

.Rossel, Sven Hakon. 1992. ''A History of Danish Literature''. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, pp. 552–553. His surname comes from the Icelandic island of Effersey (Old Norse ''Örfirisey'' 'island of the ebb tide'). Isaksen, Jógvan. 1993. ''Færøsk litteratur: introduktion og punktnedslag''. Valby: Forlaget Vindrose, p. 100. He was the son of the local administrator ('' sysselmann'') Gudmund Christie Laurentius Isholm Effersøe and the brother of the lawyer Poul Effersøe (1871–1926) and the politician Oliver Effersøe (1863–1933). Effersøe was educated in Denmark and Sweden, and he worked as an agricultural supervisor.Wylie, Jonathan. 1987. ''The Faroe Islands: Interpretations of History''. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, pp. 151–152. 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 ...

, which is considered the start of 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 ...

; together with

Jóannes Patursson Jóannes Patursson (May 6, 1866 – August 2, 1946) was a Faroese nationalist leader and poet. He served as a member of the Parliament of Denmark and the Parliament of the Faroe Islands. Background Jóannes was born in 1866 as the eldest s ...

, he is considered to have been a driving force in the movement. Effersøe and Patursson founded the

Faroese Society The Faroese Society ( fo, Føringafelag) was a Faroese association. The society was established on January 6, 1889 with a twofold objective: 1) For the Faroese language to regain its honor and dignity, and 2) For the Faroese to stick together an ...

( fo, Føringafelag), and Effersøe served as the editor of the society's 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 ...

'', which was the first newspaper written in Faroese. Effersøe also served as the editor of the newspapers '' Dúgvan'' and ''

Dimmalætting ''Dimmalætting'' ( Faroese for 'Dawn') is the oldest and largest newspaper of the Faroe Islands and is based in Tórshavn. The first edition of the ''Dimma'', as it is commonly known, appeared (after a test issue on December 8, 1877) on January 5, ...

'', and he wrote for the theater, acted in the theater himself, and wrote poetry, including: * "Førøya landið" (The Faroes, a patriotic poem) * "Alfaðirs eygu jarðarríki skoða" ( Allfather's Eye Guards the Earth) * "Eitt heim, eitt varandi heim ei her" (One Home, One Lasting Home Not Here) * "Eg minnist úr gomlum søgum" (I Remember from the Old Sagas) * "Úr øllum ættum koma vindar" (The Wind Gathered from Every Direction) Effersøe appears as "the old poet" (''den gamle digter'') on page 35 of

William Heinesen Andreas William Heinesen (15 January 1900 – 12 March 1991) was a poet, novel writer, short story writer, children's book writer, composer and painter from the Faroe Islands. His writing The Faroese capital Tórshavn is always the centre of H ...

's novel ''Glataðu spælimenninir'' (The Lost Musicians). A bust of Effersøe, created by Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, was unveiled in 1933 in front of the parliament building in Tórshavn.Nebelong, Lisbeth. 2016. ''Turen Går Til Færøerne''. Copenhagen: Politikens forlag. Rasmus Effersøe died 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 ...

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