Just Knud Qvigstad
Just Knud Qvigstad ( born April 4, 1853 in Lyngseidet; † 15 March 1957 Tromso ) was a Norwegian philologist and politician. Qvigstad, the Rector was at the Pedagogical University of Tromso, was linguistically effective as a folklorist, but especially as a major explorer of the Sami languages. At the political level, it was Norway's teaching and church minister in the years 1910 until 1912.
More remarkable than its high life span - he died just three weeks before his 104th birthday - Qvigstads was extraordinarily comprehensive work. His first scientific publication appeared in 1881, his last, om samiske kjærlighetsfortellinger ( Sami love stories ), printed 72 years later, in 1953.
Education and Career
His parents were the local physician Engebret Qvigstad (1814-1869) and his wife Precious Petrine ( " Petra" ) Krogh Wadel ( 1828-1905 ). On August 4, 1885 he married in Hammerfest Margrethe ( " Margit " ) Antonette Aagaard (3 October 1859-29. September 1949 ), daughter of the businessman Bernhard Martin Aagaard ( 1812-1870 ) and his wife Marie Malene Noodt ( 1822-1884 ).
With ten years he came to the Latin school in Tromso. As a 16 year old, he completed the exam Artium and he enrolled in 1869 to Philology studies at the Royal Frederick University in Christiania one. A year later, he put the " Anne Exam " from. He graduated from two state examinations. First he obtained in 1874 the cand phil. for philology with the subjects Old Norse, Greek, Latin, philosophy, history and literature, then in 1881 the cand theol .. During his theological studies he taught from 1874 to 1878 on the real and Latin School in Christiania and Tromsø and from 1878 Sami languages at Tromsø seminary.
His first study trip led him in 1878 to Kautokeino, but this scientific commitment, he has been putting off because of his teaching and his political functions for some time. In 1883 he took over the leadership of the teachers seminar in Tromsø. As the seminar was renamed in 1902 in Tromsø Lærerskole, the term of his function of director on Rector changed. Qvigstad held several municipal offices and was responsible for some public areas. He was, among others, 1899-1907 Member of the City Council for the Høyre and in the years 1899, 1903 and 1907, the city council, Tromsø. In the period 1910-1912 he was teaching and church minister of Norway.
In 1920 Qvigstad received a state scholarship, the free hired him on full pay from his position as rector of the Lærerskole, in order to devote his studies to Sami culture and history and also to his linguistic research in Finnish, Kvenisch ( Finno -Ugric language to pursue in Finnmark ) and Sami continue. Its research on word and expression resulted in a large text collection. For much of his material he received from a network of teacher contacts in the northern Fylken which zusandten Tell him and responded to his questions about ethno-medicine and superstition. One of Qvigstads most diligent employees was the teacher Ole Andreas Thomassen from Porsanger which provided particularly valuable contributions to his research.
In his role as head of the Sami department in Tromsø Museum, a position he held until 1931, he garnered the 2300 short stories and expanded the library collection to an impressive 2000 volumes.
With the establishment of the Institute for Comparative Cultural Research Qvigstad received the Sami department. He also was a board member of Det norske samemisjonsselskapet ( Society for Sami mission). In Tromso Museum, he was from 1884 to 1934 on the board. 1943 Qvigstads gold medal was donated. This is awarded to seed research every five years for outstanding contributions. In addition Qvigstad was both in 1886 elected to the Norwegian Academy of Science in Christiania and 1894 in the Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab in Trondheim.
The auditorium Qvigstad - auditoriet at the University in Tromsø was named 2003 on the occasion of his 150th birthday after him.
Works (selection)
- Contributions to the comparison of related Wortvorrathes of Lappish and Finnish language. Printing of the Finnish Literature Society. Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae 12, 1881.
- ( Together with G. Sandberg ): Lappiske Eventyr og Folkesagn. With Introduction by Moltke Moe. Kristiania 1887.
- Lappish speech samples / recorded by J. Qvigstad and G. Sandberg. Helsingissä: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seuran kirjapainossa, Suomalais - ugrilaisen Seuran Aikakauskirja 3 1888
- Nordic loanwords in Lapp. Christiania Videnskabs - Selskabs forhandlinger, 1893.
- Lappi shear superstition. Etnografisk Museum. Kristiania 1920.
- Norske Gaardsnavne, Finnmark. Bd 24 Kristiania in 1924.
- Lappish tales and legends variants. FF Communications No. 60 Helsinki 1925.
- Lappiske eventyr above sagn I-IV. Instituttet for sammenlignende kulturforskning. Oslo 1927-29.
- Lappish medicine. Oslo 1932.
- De lappiske fylker stedsnavn i og Finnmark Nordland. Instituttet for sammenlignende kulturforskning. H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard ). Oslo 1938.
- De lappiske appellative stedsnavn. Instituttet for sammenlignende kulturforskning. H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard ). Oslo 1944.
Literature to Just Knud Qvigstad
- Einar Niemi: Just Qvigstad. In: Norsk biografis leksikon, accessed on April 25, 2010.
- Festskrift til Rector J. Qvigstad. Tromso Museum, Tromso 1928 (Tromsø Museum Skrifter 2, ZDB - ID 437918-4 ).
- Kristian Nissen in: Studia Septentrionalia. 5, 1953, ZDB - ID 1010141 -x.
- Asbjørn Nesheim: J. K. Qvigstad ( 1853-1957 ). In: Dag Strömbäck ( Eds.): Leading folklorists of the North. Biographical Studies. Universitetsforlaget, Oslo 1971, p 323-338.