Rikard Long

Rikard Sigmund Long (January 23, 1889 – December 16, 1977) was a Faroese teacher, writer, and politician for the People's Party.

Rikard Long
Born(1889-01-23)January 23, 1889
Tórshavn, Faroe Islands
DiedDecember 16, 1977(1977-12-16) (aged 88)
Tórshavn, Faroe Islands
NationalityFaroese
OccupationWriter
Political partyPeople's Party (Faroe Islands)

Long was born in Tórshavn, the son of Georg Long from Copenhagen and Svanhilda Pálsson from Vágur.[1][2] He passed his examen artium in 1907 and his examen philosophicum in 1909.[1] He enrolled at the University of Copenhagen in 1909, initially studying medicine and later switching to languages, but he never took any exams.[2] He was a teacher at the Tórshavn Nautical School (Faroese: Tórshavnar skiparaskúli) from 1914 to 1916 and from 1919 to 1920, and then taught at the Faroese Middle and High School (Faroese: Føroya Millum- og Realskúli) from 1921 to 1954.

He headed the Copenhagen Student Union from 1916 to 1918, the Tórshavn Theater Society from 1928 to 1930, the Faroese Youth Association (Faroese: Føroya Ungmannafelag) from 1932 to 1943, and the Faroese Teachers' Association from 1933 to 1942. He served as a board member of Varðin press from 1919 to 1950 and headed it from 1935 to 1950. Lang served in the Faroese Parliament as a representative from the South Streymoy (Faroese: Suðurstreymoy) district from 1943 to 1958, and he was also a member of Kristian Djurhuus's first administration (1950–1954).

Long was one of the best-known Faroese literary critics, and he was awarded the Faroese Literature Prize for fiction in 1976. He died in Tórshavn.

Selected works
  • 1939: Færøerne, Danmark, Grønland (The Faroes, Denmark, Greenland)
  • 1964: Fornnorrøn Lesibók I–II (Old Norse Reader I–II)
  • 1979: Kveikt og kannað
gollark: Well, you seem to be using it as a justification to allow/not allow things.
gollark: Also, I don't think stuff is *generally* regulated based on summing up long term expected happiness change or something? Perhaps it should be, but it's very hard to calculate and runs into problems, and (in my opinion as a libertarian-leaning person) leads to stuff which is "out of scope" of government actions.
gollark: You're stereotyping in some vaguely rude way with ~0 empirical data to back it up.
gollark: I suspect you're ridiculously overgeneralizing and/or, er, what's the word, patronising? a bunch of people.
gollark: "Benefit to society" is vague and seems to mostly just work as a bludgeon to complain about things which don't have some obvious and Morally Pure™ justification to exist.

References
  1. Long, Rikard. 1979. Kveikt og kannað. Tórshavn: Føroya skúlabókagrunnur, pp. 12–13.
  2. Jones, W. Glyn. 1992. Faroese literature. In: Sven Hakon Rossel, ed. A History of Danish Literature, pp. 545–585. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, p. 558.
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