Simon Michael Zachariasen (3 January 1853 – 16 December 1931), also known as Símun Mikkjal Zachariasen, was a Faroese teacher and social activist.
Zachariasen was born at Kirkja on the island of Fugloy.[1] He was a driving force in the development of written Faroese, and he wrote patriotic poetry and hymns.[2] He became familiar with Hammershaimb's grammar of the language, wrote many articles in the newspaper Føringatíðindi from 1890 onward, and participated in discussions about language and education in the newspapers.[3][4]
Zachariasen married Malena Frederikka Simonsen from Hattarvík, and their sons were Símun Petur Zachariasen and Louis Zachariasen.[5] Zachariasen initially worked as a seaman, but after a leg injury he studied at and graduated from the Faroese Teachers School in 1878.[1] Zachariasen taught on Fugloy and Svínoy from 1878 to 1903, and taught at Kirkja on Fugloy from 1903 to 1926.
Selected works edit
- 1972: Ein yrkjari á útoyggj (A Poet on an Outlying Island), collected works
References edit
- ^ a b Dahl, Árni. 1980–1983. Símun Mikal Zachariassen (1853–1931). Bókmentasøga I–III. Klaksvík: Fannir.
- ^ Krenn, Ernst. 1940. Die Entwicklung der foeroyischen Literatur. Urbana: The University of Illinois Press, p. 124.
- ^ List á útoyggj at utoyggj.fo.
- ^ Debes, Hans Jacob. 1982. Nú er tann stundin ...: tjóðskaparrørsla og sjálvstýrispolitikkur til 1906, við søguligum baksýni. Tórshavn: Føroya Skúlabókagrunnur, p. 213.
- ^ Arnbjørn Mortensen. 1962. Louis Zachariasen. Fróðskaparrit 11: 100–101.