Finn Lynge
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Finn Lynge | |
|---|---|
| Member of the European Parliament for Greenland | |
| In office 17 July 1979 – 31 December 1984 | |
| Preceded by | Constituency created |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
| Constituency | Greenland |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 22 April 1933 |
| Died | 4 April 2014 (aged 80) |
| Party | Siumut |
| Parent | Kristoffer Lynge (father) |
| Alma mater | University of Copenhagen |
| Occupation | Writer, Politician, Activist |
Finn Lynge (22 April 1933[1] – 4 April 2014) was a Greenlandic politician, Indigenous rights activist, former Catholic priest and civil servant who from 1979 until 1984 was the sole Member of the European Parliament for Greenland.[2]
Lynge was born in 1933 and grew up in Nuuk. As a teenager he moved to Denmark with his parents and graduated from secondary school in 1951. Lynge studied Danish and French at the University of Copenhagen before serving in the military.
He trained to be a Catholic priest before serving in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, from 1963 to 1964. He later served as a priest in Denmark and in Greenland. He was the first native Greenlander Catholic priest since the Protestant Reformation. He subsequently resigned as a priest to marry.
Following that Lynge spent several years working for the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and for the Greenlandic Government.[3]
