Victor Danielsen

Victor Danielsen

Infobox Person
name = Victor Danielsen


caption = Faroese stamps of 2007.
birth_date = March 28, 1894
birth_place = Søldarfjørður, Faroe Islands
death_date = death date and age|1961|2|2|1894|3|28
death_place = Fuglafjørður, Faroe Islands

Victor Danielsen (March 28 1894 in SøldarfjørðurFebruary 2 1961 in Fuglafjørður) was the first Faroese Bible translator and Plymouth Brethren missionary.Victor Danielsen played a pivotal role in the Plymouth Brethren's establishment in the Faroe Islands after it was introduced there by William Gibson Sloan in the late nineteenth century.

Biography

Victor Danielsen was born in 1894 in the settlement of Søldarfjørður on the island of Eysturoy. In 1911, Danielsen started training as a teacher in Tórshavn and completed his course in 1914. He was appointed teacher at the schools in Søldarfjørður, Glyvrar und Lamba. He quit his teaching positions, however, after only six months to pursue his vocation as a missionary.

Danielsen quit the established Faroese People's Church in 1916 and attached himself to the Brøðrasamkoman (Faroese Plymouth Brethren). He married in 1920 and moved with his wife to Fuglafjørður, where he worked as a Minister and missionary for the Plymouth Brethren.

In 1930, the assembly of the Plymouth Brethren in Tórshavn requested Danielsen translate the Letter to the Galatians into the Faroese language. The resulting translation so enthused the congregation that Danielsen was requested to translate the entire New Testament as well. This translation was published in march of 1937, a few weeks before the publication of Jákup Dahl's translation, which had been authorised by the Faroese People's Church.

Upon the completion of the translation New Testament, Victor Danielsen pushed forward with the translation of the Old Testament, a task he completed in 1939. Danielsen's translation, however, based itself on other modern languages whereas Dahl's translation was based on the original Hebrew text. Because of the Second World War, Danielsen translation wasn`t published until 1949. The translation of Dahl and Kristian Osvald Viderø wasn`t published until 1961. Victor Danielsen was known as an extraordinarily energetic and prodctive man. Apart from his Bible translations, he versified 27 Psalms and translated 800 Psalms and hymns, as well as writing to novels of a religious nature. Victor Danielsen died in 1961.

References

*Anker Eli Petersen: " [http://www.stamps.fo/default.asp?catalog%5Fname=Frim%E6rker&category%5Fname=&product%5Fid=FO%2D601%2D603# Bibelübersetzer] " (in German)
* [http://www.biblian.fo/ Biblian.fo – Danielsens Bibel] (in Faroese)

See also

* Faroese People's Church


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