About Fríðrikur Petersen
Lived 1853 – 1917 (aged 64). Fríðrikur Petersen was a Danish priest, politician, writer and poet.
Fríðrikur Petersen (April 22, 1853 – April 26, 1917) was a noted Faroese Unionist politician and clergyman.
Biography Petersen was born at Saltnes in Eysturoy. He was the son of Johannes Petersen (1812–1901) and Susanne Frederikke Olesdatter (1826–1905). He became a student in Reykjavík, Iceland in 1875 and was awarded his Cand.theol. in 1880. He was married in 1880 with Sophie Amalie Wesenberg (1861–1919). He was ordained a Lutheran priest in the Church of the Faroe Islands (Fólkakirkjan). He served as parish priest at Sandoynni (1880), Suðuroy (1885) and at Østerø (1900). He was a rural dean at Nes in Eysturoy from 1900 to 1917.
He died on April 26, 1917, in Copenhagen.
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Faroese politician and bishop (1853-1917)
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Fríðrikur Petersen was born on 22 April 1853 in Saltnes.
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Fríðrikur Petersen died on 26 April 1917 in Frederiksberg.
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Fríðrikur Petersen was a priest, politician, writer and poet.
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Fríðrikur Petersen was Danish.
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