Símun Petur Zachariasen

Zachariasen graduated from the Faroese Teachers School in 1908 and worked as a teacher in Klaksvík from 1914 to 1953,^[2] and as the editor of the newspaper Norðlýsið from 1915 onward. He served as the head of the bank Norðoya Sparikassa from 1919 to 1976.^[3][4]

Zachariasen was mayor of the Municipality of Klaksvík from 1930 to 1934. He served as a representative of the Home Rule Party for the Norðoyar district in the Faroese Parliament from 1928 to 1943, and again from 1946 to 1956.

In 1972, he published a collection of his father's poetry in the volume Ein yrkjari á útoyggj (A Poet on an Outlying Island).^[5]

• Dahl, Árni. 2002. Løgtingið 150. Hátíðarrit. Vol. 2. Tórshavn, p. 362.