The North Pole Mission in Iceland 1857 - 1858
In 1857 two catholic priests came to Iceland in order to regain the island for the catholic faith. The recently open polar mission within in the catholic church had the ambition aim to missionaries Northern Scandinavia, the Faroe and Shetland Islands as well as Iceland, Greenland and artic regions o...
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ftskemman:oai:skemman.is:1946/19973 2023-05-15T16:29:30+02:00 The North Pole Mission in Iceland 1857 - 1858 Birgir Guðmundsson 1956- Meckl, Markus, 1967- Háskóli Íslands 2014-10 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/1946/19973 en eng Þjóðarspegillinn XV: Rannsóknir í félagsvísindum. Félags- og mannvísindadeild 978-9935-424-18-1 http://hdl.handle.net/1946/19973 Þjóðarspegillinn 2014 Rannsóknir í félagsvísindum XV Félagsfræði Article 2014 ftskemman 2022-12-11T06:54:24Z In 1857 two catholic priests came to Iceland in order to regain the island for the catholic faith. The recently open polar mission within in the catholic church had the ambition aim to missionaries Northern Scandinavia, the Faroe and Shetland Islands as well as Iceland, Greenland and artic regions of Northern America. Behind this mission was a former Russian aristocrat Stepan Stephanovic Dzunkovskij who had converted to the Catholic Church and got the support by the Vatican to run this operation. At the archive at the Catholic Church in Iceland in Reykjavik are six boxes containing the correspondence between the priest coming to Iceland and the mission as well many other documents concerning this first 30 years of the Catholic Church in Iceland. Up to 80 percent of these documents are in French, less than 5 percent are in Icelandic. The main object of the presentation is to make accessible the content of the archive and by doing so help to better understand the beginning of the Catholic Church in Iceland. It will be also a contribution to the social history of Iceland at the middle of the 19th century and will allow seeing Iceland through the eye of a 19th century foreigner. Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland Iceland North Pole Skemman (Iceland) Greenland North Pole |
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In 1857 two catholic priests came to Iceland in order to regain the island for the catholic faith. The recently open polar mission within in the catholic church had the ambition aim to missionaries Northern Scandinavia, the Faroe and Shetland Islands as well as Iceland, Greenland and artic regions of Northern America. Behind this mission was a former Russian aristocrat Stepan Stephanovic Dzunkovskij who had converted to the Catholic Church and got the support by the Vatican to run this operation. At the archive at the Catholic Church in Iceland in Reykjavik are six boxes containing the correspondence between the priest coming to Iceland and the mission as well many other documents concerning this first 30 years of the Catholic Church in Iceland. Up to 80 percent of these documents are in French, less than 5 percent are in Icelandic. The main object of the presentation is to make accessible the content of the archive and by doing so help to better understand the beginning of the Catholic Church in Iceland. It will be also a contribution to the social history of Iceland at the middle of the 19th century and will allow seeing Iceland through the eye of a 19th century foreigner. |
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The North Pole Mission in Iceland 1857 - 1858 |
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The North Pole Mission in Iceland 1857 - 1858 |
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The North Pole Mission in Iceland 1857 - 1858 |
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Þjóðarspegillinn XV: Rannsóknir í félagsvísindum. Félags- og mannvísindadeild 978-9935-424-18-1 http://hdl.handle.net/1946/19973 |
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