Jákup Dahl
# Jákup Dahl

Jákup Dahl (English and German Jacob Dahl) (5 June 1878 – 5 June 1944) was a Faroese Provost and Bible translator. In 1908 he became known as a linguist with the first Faroese grammar lessons for school students.

## Life and work

Part of a series on :

Lutheranism :

Background

Christianity

Start of the Reformation

Reformation

Protestantism :

Doctrine and theology

Bible

Old Testament

New Testament

Creeds

Apostles' Creed

Nicene Creed

Athanasian Creed

Book of Concord

Augsburg Confession

Apology of the Augsburg Confession

Luther's Small / Large Catechism

Smalcald Articles

Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope

Formula of Concord

Distinctive theological concepts

Theology of Martin Luther

Justification

Law and Gospel

Sola gratia

Sola scriptura

Christology

Sanctification

Two kingdoms

catholicity

Two states of the Church

Priesthood of all believers

Divine Providence

Marian theology

Theology of the Cross

Sacramental Union

Other relevant topics

Homosexuality :

Sacraments and worship

Baptism

Eucharist

Confession

Confirmation

Matrimony

Anointing of the Sick

Holy Orders

Divine Service

Matins

Vespers

Liturgical calendar

Calendar of saints

Lutheran hymn

Lutheran hymnwriters

Normative principle

Lutheran art :

Organization

Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference

Global Confessional & Missional Lutheran Forum

International Lutheran Council

Lutheran World Federation

Denominations

Lutheranism by region :

Movements

History of Lutheranism

Crypto-Lutherans

Gnesio-Lutherans

Lutheran orthodoxy

Pietists

Radical Pietism

Haugeans

Laestadians

Finnish Awakening

Old Lutherans

Neo-Lutherans

High church Lutherans

Confessional Lutheranism :

Missionaries

John Campanius

Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg

Hans Egede

Johann Heinrich Callenberg

Johann Phillip Fabricius

Paul Henkel

John Christian Frederick Heyer

Karl Graul

Martti Rautanen

Wilhelm Sihler

F. C. D. Wyneken

Hans Paludan Smith Schreuder

Lars Olsen Skrefsrud

Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen

Onesimos Nesib

Paul Olaf Bodding

Johann Flierl

Christian Keyser

Jens Christensen :

Bible translators

Martin Luther

Casiodoro de Reina

Kjell Magne Yri

Onesimos Nesib

Aster Ganno

Kristian Osvald Viderø

Jákup Dahl

Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg

Johann Phillip Fabricius

William Tyndale

John Rogers

George Constantine

Jozef Roháček

Johannes Avetaranian

Guðbrandur Þorláksson

Ludvig Olsen Fossum

Hans Egede / Paul Egede

Otto Fabricius

Nils Vibe Stockfleth

Olaus Petri / Laurentius Petri

Martti Rautanen

Primož Trubar

Jurij Dalmatin

Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen

Sebastian Krelj

Mikael Agricola

Norwegian Bible Society

Swedish Bible Society

Samuel Ludwik Zasadius

Stanislovas Rapolionis

Laurentius Andreae

Hans Tausen

Olaf M. Norlie

Jonas Bretkūnas

Hans Paludan Smith Schreuder

Antonio Brucioli

Mikołaj Jakubica

Matthias Bel

Johann Ernst Glück

William F. Beck :

Theologians

Martin Luther / Katharina von Bora

Philip Melanchthon

Johannes Bugenhagen

Johannes Brenz

Justus Jonas

Hans Tausen

Laurentius Petri

Olaus Petri

Mikael Agricola

Matthias Flacius

Martin Chemnitz

Johann Gerhard

Abraham Calovius

Johannes Andreas Quenstedt

Johann Wilhelm Baier

Philipp Spener

David Hollaz

August Hermann Francke

Henry Muhlenberg

Lars Levi Laestadius

Charles Porterfield Krauth

C. F. W. Walther

Søren Kierkegaard

Albrecht Ritschl

Wilhelm Herrmann

F. W. Stellhorn

Rudolf Otto

Ernst Troeltsch

Rudolf Bultmann

Paul Tillich

Hermann Sasse

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Wolfhart Pannenberg :

vte :

Dahl was born on 5 June 1878 in Vágur on the island of Suðuroy in the Faroe Islands. He was the son of the merchant Peter Hans Dahl and Elisabeth Súsanna Vilhelm.

Dahl was a classmate of Janus Djurhuus at the high school in Tórshavn, the capital of the Faroes. Djurhuus described Dahl’s delivery of the nationalist hymn Nú er tann stundin komin til handa by Jóannes Patursson as his "linguistic baptism". While he was affiliated with Patursson's Party Sjálvstýrisflokkurin (Self-Government Party or Separatist Party), Jacob Dahl became famous during the Faroese language conflict, when he refused, as a teacher in Tórshavn 1909, to continue to teach in Danish. This matter back then was elevated to the Copenhagen ministry of instruction. One of his former students was William Heinesen, who reminisced about the time when Dahl still forced his students to use Danish.

In 1917 Dahl was elected Provost of the Faroes. In 1921 he published his translation of the Book of Psalms. The New Testament was published in 1937. Subsequently, he started the translation of the Old Testament, but was unable to finish it prior to his death in 1944. This task was then taken over by Kristian Osvald Viderø, to enable the Danske Folkekirke Church of Denmark (which immediately authorized Dahl’s translations) to finally present a Bible translation in Faroese language in 1961. Besides the Bible translation, Dahl also supplied a transliteration of the Catechism, a Bible story and a compilation of Faroese sermons for Layman Worships in remote villages. In addition Jákup Dahl translated dozens of church songs, including some by Martin Luther into his native language.

A Bible translation by Victor Danielsen already existed in 1948, but he based his on modern European editions, unlike Dahl’s translations from the older editions.

Jákup Dahl’s son Regin Dahl (1918–2007) is an important Faroese poet and composer.

## Works

* 1908: Føroysk mállæra til skúlabrúks. Tórshavn. (“Färöi language teachings for the school use”)
* 1913: Jólasálmar og morgun og kvøldsálmar (collection of Jákup Dahl and Símun av Skarði. Tórshavn: Fram - 30 pp. (Christmas carols and tomorrow and evening songs)
* 1928: Glottar. Tórshavn: H.N. Jacobsens Bókahandil - 96 pp.
* 1935: Ávegis. Tórshavn: H.N. Jacobsens Bókahandil 156 pp.
* 1948: Sólin og sóljan: Self-publishing house Regin Dahl. - 79 pp.
* 1948: Meðan hildið verður heilagt. Lestrarbók. Tórshavn: Føroyskt kirkjumál - 485 pp. (devotion book, lecture collection)
* 1970: Í jólahalguni. Sólarris. - Tórshavn: Heimamissiónsforlagið - 149 pp.
* Bíblia: Halgabók. Gamla testamenti og Nýggja. (From the original translations of Dahl and Viderø). Copenhagen: Det Danske Bibelselskab, 2000 - 1211 pp.

## Literature

* Jákup Reinert Hansen: Mellem kor og skib. Jacob Dahl’s færøske more postiller. Århus: Det teologiske Fakultet, Aarhus Universitet, 2003. - 422 pp. (in Danish with short German summary. Dissertations with support of the fund of Queen Margrethe II.)
   * Jákup Reinert Hansen: Mellem kor og skib. Tórshavn: Føroya Fróðskaparfelag, 2004. - 477 pp. ISBN 99918-41-39-3
