Christian Matras (poet)

Christian Matras ( born December 7, 1900 in Viðareiði, Faroe Islands, † October 16, 1988 in Tórshavn ) was a Faroese linguist and poet. He was the first Faroese, who became a professor.

Together with William Heinesen (1900-1991), Jørgen - Frantz Jacobsen (1900-1938) and Hedin Brú (1901-1987) one knows it as the " big four " of her generation in the Faroe Islands.

Life

The family name Matras goes back to an immigrant from France.

Christian Matras was born in 1900 in the village Viðareiði on Borðoy very north of the Faroe Islands. He attended primary school until he came in Tórshavn in 1912 to the junior high school. He was in a class with Jørgen - Frantz Jacobsen and William Heinesen. In 1917 he received his high-school diploma. In the same year he moved to Soro in Denmark, where in 1920 he graduated from high school.

After graduation Matras studied Scandinavian at the University of Copenhagen. He also spent a semester in Norway, where he worked with Norwegian seal that should characterize him very much. In 1928, he obtained his MA in Linguistics, and in 1933 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the place names in the Faroes.

From 1936 Christian Matras worked at the University of Copenhagen, and became in 1952 a professor of linguistics. He was the first Faroese that ever became a professor, and until 2009 the only one in Copenhagen. - Faroese, the professor was in Copenhagen.

In 1965 Matras returned to the Faroe Islands, where he was from the beginning, head of the Faroese Faculty of the University of the Faroe Islands. He was the only professor in the Faroe Islands. In 1971 he retired for reasons of age.

Christian Matras died on 16 October 1988. A few months earlier, he was honored with a postage stamp of Postverk Føroya.

In October 2006, his birthplace Viðareiði got the first time street names. A bear of the twelve roads and paths Kristjansgøta the name ( " Christian street " ) - by Christian Matras.

Work

Christian Matras ' great work comprises Faroese literature, language and cultural studies, but he is incidentally also one of the most outstanding poets of the Faroe Islands.

Special emphasis became the Faroese - Danish dictionary from 1928/1961, with whom he had already begun as a student. It was for decades the only modern dictionary, with the Faroese language and literature to the outside world was opening up. Associate Editor was Mads Andreas Jacobsen ( 1891-1944 ).

From sprachgeschichtlichem interest Matras ' editions of Jens Christian Svabos Faroese Dictionary Dictionary Færoense, which was obtained only in the form of manuscripts for almost 200 years, and Johan Henrik Schrøters Gospel of Matthew. Both were pioneers of the Faroese written language. But their peculiar loud near orthographies could not prevail.

The monumental work Føroya kvæði: corpus carminum Færoensium (CCF ), the Svend Grundtvig and Jørgen Bloch have compiled in the 19th century, is a timeless standard work of dance Faroese ballads. The CCF contains the collective oral heritage of the Faroe Islanders, they were able to save over centuries in their ballads in the modern era. This seven- volume work with comments in German.

Matras was involved in most Faroese textbooks of the 30's. From his pen also comes the first Faroese literary history.

On his return to the Faroe Islands he had a large collection of Faroese vocabulary list in the luggage, she grew up on the Faroese Faculty zoom to 500,000 and formed the basis of the 1998's Føroysk BETA.

List of Works

Translations

Editions

Secondary literature

  • Anne- Kari Skarðhamar: Poetikk og i livstolkning Christian Matras ' lyrikk: med et tillegg om Matras above færøysk lyrikk. Oslo: Unipub Forl, 2002 ( Annales Societatis Scientiarum faeroensis: Supplementum, 31 ) - ISBN 82-7477-086-2, ISBN 99918-41-31-8
  • Anne- Kari Skarðhamar: " Det farlige, frygtelige det, det mægtige '. Christian Matras ' nature poetry ". In Edda, 2001, p 396-405.
  • Anne- Kari Skarðhamar: " ' Hella, hugur og Tid ' - i Christian Matras ' diktning tidserfaring ". In: Nordisk og litteratur mentalitet. , 2000. Pp. 485-92.
  • Anne- Kari Skarðhamar: " ' Growing up on the Edge of the Abyss '. Childhood impressions in the Poetry of Christian Matras. " in: Scandinavica, XXXV, 1996, p 71-104.
  • W. Glyn Jones: " Nature and Man in Christian Matras 's Poetry ." In: Scandinavica, XIX, 1980, p 181-97.
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