Jógvan á Lakjuni

Jógvan á Lakjuni
Jógvan á Lakjuni, 2007

Speaker of the Løgting
In office 2019 – 21 December 2022
Preceded by	Páll á Reynatúgvu
Succeeded by	Bjørt Samuelsen
In office 2011–2015
Preceded by	Hergeir Nielsen
Succeeded by	Páll á Reynatúgvu
Member of Parliament
In office 1998–2022
Minister of Culture
In office 3 February 2004 – 4 February 2008
Preceded by	Annita á Fríðriksmørk
Succeeded by	Kristina Háfoss

Personal details
Born	13 November 1952 Fuglafjørður, Faroe Islands
Political party	People's Party (Fólkaflokkurin)
Spouse	Odvør Gunnarsson
Children	5
Relatives	Victor Danielsen (grandfather)

Jógvan á Lakjuni (born 13 November 1952 in Fuglafjørður) is a Faroese politician, composer and teacher. He was speaker of the Faroese parliament, the Løgting, from 2011 to 2015 and from 2019 to 2022.^[1] He worked as a fisherman from 1969 to 1972. He was educated as a school teacher in 1977, and worked as a school teacher in Fuglafjørður from 1977 to 1989. During this period he also studied at the University of the Faroe Islands and since 1989 has worked as a high school teacher at Føroya Handilsskúli in Kambsdalur.

Political career

Jógvan á Lakjuni was elected member of the Faroese Løgting in 1998, but before that he had been substitute member several times in the period 1989 to 1996.^[2] He was minister of culture in the first cabinet of Jóannes Eidesgaard. He was the speaker of the Faroese parliament, the Løgting from 2011 to 2015^[3] and from 2019 to 2022. He was president of the West Nordic Council from 2002 to 2003. He was reelected to the parliament on 1 September 2015 and in 2019. In 2022 he decided to stop in politics.

Member of Committees of the Løgting

2008–2012 vice chairman of the Culture Committee
2002–2004 member of the Foreign Affairs Committee
2000–2002 chairman of the Culture Committee
1998–2002 member of the Næringskomiteen
1998–2000 member of the Culture Committee

Musical career

He has been active musician since he was young. He plays the piano and has been the leader of local choirs of his hometown Fuglafjørður. In the 1980s he was one of the members of the choir called Bros. He has composed melodies for psalms and other religious and traditional Faroese songs i.e. to poems from the Faroese poet Hans Andrias Djurhuus, he also composed a new melody for the psalm Gakk tú tryggur, which is a popular psalm in the Faroes.^[4] Á Lakjuni is a member of the Plymouth Brethren (called Brøðrasamkoman in the Faroes),^[5] but his melody is also used in the Church of the Faroes (Fólkakirkjan).^[6] Together with his son Bárður á Lakjuni, he released an album in 2012, Gakk tú tryggur.^[7] Jógvan á Lakjuni composed melodies for seven of the songs, and his son composed five of the songs on the album.

References

^ "Royndur politikkari 70 ár". Eysturoyarportalurin. 15 November 2022. Retrieved 11 December 2022.
^ Folkaflokkurin.fo Archived 2013-07-01 at archive.today
^ "Logting.fo, Formansskapurin". Archived from the original on 2014-03-01. Retrieved 2014-02-06.
^ Fuglafjordur.com
^ Hebron.fo
^ Snar.fo
^ Rateyourmusic.com, Bárður & Jógvan á Lakjuni

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