Erlendur Patursson

Erlendur Patursson ( born August 20, 1913 in Kirkjubøur, Faroe Islands, † June 16, 1986 ) was a Faroese writer and as a politician, co-founder of the Republican Tjóðveldisflokkurin.

Erlendur was the son of Jóannes Patursson and his Icelandic wife Guðný Eiríksdóttir. He married Morid, nee Holm from Hvalba.

In 1940 he made ​​his cand pol. the economist. He then worked as chief editor.

In 1948 he was við together with Jákup í Jákupsstovu, Sigurð Joensen and Hanus Høgadalsá among the founders of the Republican party left Tjóðveldisflokkurin. 1958-1966 and 1970-1986 he was a member of the Faroese Parliament Løgting. 1973-1977 he was one of the two Faroese seats in the Danish Folketing 1963-1967 and Minister in the Government of the Faroe Islands.

As Faroese representatives on the Nordic Council, he fought for equality of the autonomous territories of Åland ( to Finland), Greenland and Faroe Islands ( Denmark both too ), and of the people of the seeds. He could not stand up, but reached that Åland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands were given their own delegations. He is also the initiator of the house of the north, such as the cooperation of the West Nordic ( Greenland, Icelandic and Faroese ) parliamentarians in a separate organization since 1986.

Patursson was also chairman of the fishermen association of the Faroe Islands. In 1981 he received the Literature Prize of the Faroe Islands for literature for his five-volume history of the Faroe Islands fisheries Fiskiveiði - fiskimenn ( 1850-1939 ) I, II and Fiskivinna above Fiskivinnumál ( 1940-1970 ) I, II, III. The reason given was that he had thereby created an indispensable standard work on the history of the main economic sector of the country.

Works

  • Fólkaflytingin úr Føroyum, 1942
  • Føroysk búreising, 1945
  • Føroysk stjórnarmál, 1945
  • Fiskiveiði - fiskimenn: 1850-1939 I, II, 1961
  • Fiskivinna above Fiskivinnumál: 1940-1970 I, II, III, 1976-1981
  • Sjón above seiggj, 1983
  • Í hjørtum okkara BYR frælsi, 1985
  • " Aldrig kan et folk Forga " - som ikke vil det selv, 1986.

Swell

  • Løgtingið 150: Hátíðarrit, Tórshavn 2002, Volume 2
  • Writer ( Faroe Islands )
  • Author
  • Politicians ( Faroe Islands )
  • Literature ( Faroese )
  • Faroese
  • Born in 1913
  • Died in 1986
  • Man
Nordic House in the Faroe Islands West Nordic Council
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