Louis Zachariasen
Louis Christian Oliver Zachariasen known as Louis Zachariasen (21 January 1890 in Kirkja, Fugloy – 30 August 1960) was a Faroese writer and politician (Sjálvstýrisflokkurin). He was the first deputy prime minister of the Faroe Islands after the island got home rule in 1948.
Zachariasen took a degree as a school teacher from the Faroese Teachers School in Tórshavn in 1911, he went to a Folk high school in Denmark in 1915, in 1918 he took examen artium, and in 1924 he took a degree as Master of Science in Engineering (Danish: cand.polyt.) from Polyteknisk Læreanstalt in Copenhagen. He moved back to the Faroe Islands where he was employed by the Faroese Telephone Company (Telefonverk Føroya Løgtings) in 1925, he became CEO for the company from 1936–1952. He was also the president of the Collegium Academicum Faeroense 1933–1942.
Bibliography
- 1926 – Páll fangi, play
- 1951 – Á leiðini, poems
- 1952 – Úr Føroya søgu um 1700 (Faroese history around 1700)
- 1961 – Føroyar sum rættarsamfelag 1535–1655 (Faroe Islands as a community governed by law 1535-1655)
- 1978 – Sóttin svarta - short stories and the play Páll fangi
- 1978 – Abbastova, roman. Udkom først som føljeton i julemagasinet Følv 1955 til 1959, blev første gang udgivet samlet i en bog i 1978.
Faroese language conflict
Zachariasen took active part in the Faroese language conflict. He and other worked for the rights to use the Faroese language in all offial matters. He had a degree as a school teacher, but he refused to teach the Faroese children in the Danish language, as the law ordered him to do. He therefore stopped working as a teacher in protest and moved to Denmark for some years in order to get another education. He also took active part in the Faroese language conflict by writing poems, plays, novels and other texts in Faroese.[1]
Family
His parents were both from the island Fugloy, they were Malena Frederikka Simonsen from Hattarvík and Símun Mikal Zachariasen from Kirkja.[2] His brother, Símun Petur Zachariasen, was also a politician and member of the Faroese parliament. Louis Zachariasen was the grand father of the Tjóðveldi politician Kristina Háfoss. Louis Zachariasen married Kristina Frederikka Hentze from Sandur, they lived in Tórshavn.
References
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- ↑ timarit.is - Louis Zachariasen. Written by Arnbjørn Mortensen, 1962
