Andrias Christian Evensen (December 6, 1874 – October 21, 1917) was a
Faroese priest, editor, writer, and politician for the
Home Rule Party (
Faroese: Sjálvstýrisflokkurin). Together with
Jákup Dahl, he was one of the first to propagate the use of
Faroese, including as a church language in preference to
Danish.
Evensen was born in
Viðareiði.[1][2] He received his examen artium certification in 1894 and the degree of cand.theol. in 1901. Evensen became the parish priest in
Sandur in 1902, and then served as the
dean for the Faroe Islands from April 1917 until his death in October that year. He became the editor of the newspaper Føringatíðindi in 1906. Evensen was active in the
Løgting as a parliamentary representative from
Sandoy from 1908 to 1917. He eventually broke away from the
Home Rule Party (
Faroese: Sjálvstýrisflokkurin) and was an independent representative during his last year in the Løgting.[3]
Together with the writer
Rasmus Rasmussen and the archivist and politician
Anton Degn, he established the publisher Hitt føroyska Bókamentafelagið (The Faroese Book Cultivation Association) in 1907. Evensen died in
Copenhagen.[2]
Bibliography
1899: Smásangir og sálmar (Short Songs and Psalms; editor)
1900: Skálkaleikur. Mortansmessuteiti (Roguish Games. Saint Martin's Evening Cabaret)
1902: Búreisingur (The Settler; journal, only six issues)
1912: Lesibók til læraraskúlan (Reader for Teacher Training School)
1914: Savn til Føroya søgu í 16. øld (Anthology of Sixteenth-Century Faroese Sagas; 1908–1914)
1963: Harubókin (a reader for younger children)
References
^Kamban, Hanus. 2001. J. H. O. Djurhuus (= Odense University Studies in Scandinavian Languages and Literatures 2(26), part 2). Odense: Odense Universitetsforlag, p. 131.
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abOpielka, Andrea Susanne. 2011. Danse- og sanglege på Færøerne: oprindelse, udbredelse, nutidig tradition. Tórshavn: Fróðskapur / Faroe University Press, p. 367.
^Wylie, Jonathan. 1987. The Faroe Islands: Interpretations of History. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, p. 168