Christian Matras (poet)

Christian Matras (poet): Christian Matras

Born December 07, 1900
Viðareiði

Died October 16, 1988(1988-10-16) (aged 87)
Tórshavn

Christian Matras (1900 - 1988) was born at Viðareiði. He took a doctor’s degree in Old Norse in 1933 from the University of Copenhagen, and in 1952 he became a professor at the same university. In 1965 he returned to the Faroe Islands to become head of the department for Faroese language at the University of the Faroe Islands in Tórshavn. His great work analyzes Faroese language, literature, and culture, but also as a poet is he one of the most important in Faroese literature. He died in 1988.^[1]

References

^ Sven Hakon Rossel (1992), A History of Danish Literature, University of Nebraska Press, ISBN 9780803238862, ISBN 080323886X, http://books.google.com/?id=EzUXE3FNPZQC&pg=RA2-PA559&lpg=RA2-PA559&dq=%22Christian+Matras%22

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Name Matras, Christian

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Date of birth 1900-12-07

Place of birth Viðareiði

Date of death 1988-10-16

Place of death Tórshavn

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