Tómas Sæmundsson, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Icelandic priest, author and nationalist
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About Tómas Sæmundsson
- Tómas Sæmundsson (Jun 7 1807 – May 17, 1841) was an Icelandic priest, and one of the Fjölnismenn, a group of Icelandic intellectuals who spearheaded the revival of Icelandic national consciousness and gave rise to the Icelandic Independence Movement.
- According to author Daisy Neijmann, he was "one of the era's most fervent nationalists". Tómas is quoted by J.
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- Tolkien as saying "Málin eru höfuðeínkenni þjóðanna..." (Languages are the chief distinguishing marks of peoples ...): Languages are the chief distinguishing marks of peoples.
- No people in fact comes into being until it speaks a language of its own; let the languages perish and the peoples perish too, or become different peoples.
- But that never happens except as the result of oppression and distress. Tómas travelled around Europe from 1832 to 1834, and he became the pastor in Breiðabólsstaður in Fljótshlíð in 1835.
- Among other things, Tómas wrote the fifth annual issue of the journal Fjölnir.
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The engraving was made from a drawing or a photograph by an unknown author based on a marble relief by an unknown author. For details see Halldór J. Jónsson (1998). "Myndir af Tómasi Sæmundssyni", in Árbók Fornleifafélagsins, pp. 35-45.
Source: Scanned (by User:Haukurth) from Andvari, 1888.
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Hans Peter Hansen
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| Alternative names | H. P. Hansen (Xylographer) | ||
| Description | Danish-Swedish xylographer and graphic artist | ||
| Date of birth/death | 20 December 1829 | 18 November 1899 | |
| Location of birth/death | Copenhagen, Denmark | Frederiksberg, Denmark | |
| Work period | from the 1850s on | ||
| Work location | 1854 - 64: Dresden, then Leipzig (Germany); otherwise: Copenhagen, Denmark | ||
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Source: Scanned (by User:Haukurth) from Andvari, 1888.
License: CC-PD-Mark
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