Rasmus Effersøe

Rasmus Christoffer Effersøe
Born (1857-05-30)May 30, 1857
Trongisvágur
Died March 23, 1916(1916-03-23) (aged 58)
Tórshavn

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

Effersøe was born in Trongisvágur.[1][2] His surname comes from the Icelandic island of Effersey (Old Norse Örfirisey 'island of the ebb tide').[3] 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).[4]

Effersøe was educated in Denmark and Sweden, and he worked as an agricultural supervisor.[5] He was one of the nine men that convened the Christmas Meeting of 1888,[5] which is considered the start of the Faroese independence movement; together with Jóannes Patursson, he is considered to have been a driving force in the movement. Effersøe and Patursson founded the Faroese Society (Faroese: Føringafelag), and Effersøe served as the editor of the society's newspaper, Føringatíðindi,[2] which was the first newspaper written in Faroese. Effersøe also served as the editor of the newspapers Dúgvan and Dimmalætting, and he wrote for the theater,[5] acted in the theater himself, and wrote poetry,[2] including:

Effersøe appears as "the old poet" (den gamle digter) on page 35 of William Heinesen's novel Glataðu spælimenninir (The Lost Musicians).[3] A bust of Effersøe, created by Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, was unveiled in 1933 in front of the parliament building in Tórshavn.[6]

Rasmus Effersøe died in Tórshavn.

References

  1. Heinesen, Jens Pauli. 1966. Føroyar í dag. Tórshavn: Norrøna felagið, p. 102.
  2. 1 2 3 Rossel, Sven Hakon. 1992. A History of Danish Literature. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, pp. 552–553.
  3. 1 2 Isaksen, Jógvan. 1993. Færøsk litteratur: introduktion og punktnedslag. Valby: Forlaget Vindrose, p. 100.
  4. Nauerby, Tom. 1996. No Nation is an Island: Language, Culture and National Identity in the Faroe Islands. Aarhus: SNAI-North Atlantic Publications, p. 57.
  5. 1 2 3 Wylie, Jonathan. 1987. The Faroe Islands: Interpretations of History. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, pp. 151–152.
  6. Nebelong, Lisbeth. 2016. Turen Går Til Færøerne. Copenhagen: Politikens forlag.

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