Einar Ragnarsson Kvaran
Einar Ragnarsson Kvaran (November 19, 1920 – December 13, 2012) was an Icelandic engineer, teacher, genealogist and writer. He lived in America much of the latter part of his life and was the author of the Our Ancestors newspaper series.
Early life
Einar was born in
After his family returned to Reykjavík in 1933, Einar attended Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík, one of the oldest institutions in Iceland, founded in 1056,[3] where he was the Inspector Scholae in 1940.[1][4] His grandfather, Hannes Hafstein, had been the school's first Inspector Scholae in 1879.
Following his graduation he attended the
United Nations career
In 1952 Einar was employed by the
Later life
He retired in 1980 and moved to
When Steve Nawrocki, director of the program "said goodbye to Meals on Wheels drivers Einar and Clara Kvaran," he wondered "how many volunteers it would take to replace them. The two have delivered meals to homebound Puebloans for 17 years calling off for only a few vacations and the occasional surgery. They have been around longer than I have. It is volunteers like them that make a program like this possible."[10]
After twenty years in Pueblo he moved again, to Sun City, Arizona. He was a member of the Association of Former International Civil Servants.[11]
During the 1990s Einar, who had a lifelong interest in genealogy, began contributing articles about "famous" Icelanders of the past, all of whom were ancestors and relations, to Lögberg-Heimskringla, an Icelandic and English newspaper published in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The paper was created by joining two Icelandic newspapers, both co-founded in the 1880s by his grandfather, Einar Hjörleifsson.
Before he died Einar requested that some of his ashes be spread in the Hvalvatn area, where he spent summers as a youth serving as a fishing guide and a horse handler. He died on December 13, 2012.[12][13]
Selected publications
- The Mechanization of the Inshore Fisheries and the relationship to Fisheries Development in Ceylon, The Development of Ceylon's Fisheries (A Symposium), Printed From Bulletin of the Fisheries Research Station, Ceylon, Vol. 17, No.2, Printed at the Government Press Ceylon, 1965
- The Effect of Labor Costs on Investment and Management Patterns in the Fishing Industry, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, International Conference on Investment in Fisheries, Rome, Italy, 1969
- Marine Fisheries Potential in the Philippines and South East Asia, Marine Science Seminar, Xavier University, June 17–20, 1971, Cagayan de Oro, Philippines, pp 45–54
Lögberg-Heimskringla publications
Einar published a series of articles entitled Our Ancestors about significant Icelanders of the past, populating it with figures such as "
In the introduction to the Our Ancestors series Einar describes it as not "a history of Iceland" but "more like a family photo album from which most of the snapshots have been lost".[14]
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References
Notes
- ^ (July 15, 1922 - May 11, 2016)
- ^ Lögberg-Heimskringla, February 24, 1989 p.6
- ^ Lögberg-Heimskringla, March 31, 1989 p.7
- ^ Lögberg-Heimskringla, April 7, 1989 p.7
- ^ Lögberg-Heimskringla, April 21, 1989 p.6
- ^ Lögberg-Heimskringla, May 12, 1989 p.3
- ^ Lögberg-Heimskringla, May 19, 1989 p.5
- ^ Lögberg-Heimskringla, June 2, 1989 p.3
- ^ Lögberg-Heimskringla, June 7, 1989 p.6
- ^ Lögberg-Heimskringla, June 23, 1989 p.7
- ^ Lögberg-Heimskringla, October 6, 1989 p.5
- ^ Lögberg-Heimskringla, October 13, 1989 p.4
- ^ Lögberg-Heimskringla, October 27, 1989 p.7
- ^ Lögberg-Heimskringla, November 24, 1989 p.2
- ^ Lögberg-Heimskringla, December 1, 1989 p.3
- ^ Lögberg-Heimskringla, December 8, 1989 p.6
- ^ Lögberg-Heimskringla, December 15, 1989 p.6
- ^ Lögberg-Heimskringla, March 30, 1990 p.5
- ^ Lögberg-Heimskringla, January 26, 1990 p.7
- ^ Lögberg-Heimskringla, February 2, 1990 p.6
- ^ Lögberg-Heimskringla, February 9, 1990 p.8
- ^ Lögberg-Heimskringla, April 6, 1990 p.6
- ^ Lögberg-Heimskringla, May 11, 1990 p.7
- ^ Lögberg-Heimskringla, May 25, 1990 p.6
- ^ Lögberg-Heimskringla, September 28, 1990 p. 7
- ^ Lögberg-Heimskringla, October 12, 1990
- ^ Lögberg-Heimskringla, November 23, 1990 p.4
- ^ Lögberg-Heimskringla, January 25, 1991 p. 2
- ^ Lögberg-Heimskringla, February 1, 1991 p. 3
- ^ Lögberg-Heimskringla, September 13, 1991 p.7
- ^ Lögberg-Heimskringla, September 20, 1991 p.6
- ^ Lögberg-Heimskringla, December 13, 1991 p.11
- ^ Lögberg-Heimskringla, February 14, 1992 p.7
- ^ Lögberg-Heimskringla, April 17, 1992
- ^ Lögberg-Heimskringla, April 22, 1992, p.7, continued from, previous edition
- ^ Lögberg-Heimskringla, January 22, 1993 p. 2-3
Citations
- ^ a b "Iceland Review - Einar Ragnarsson Kvaran". Iceland Review. December 28, 2012. Archived from the original on June 17, 2018. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
- ^ "The Icelandic Unitarian Church Rev. Philip M. Pétursson, D.D., M.L.A." (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved June 10, 2018.
- ^ "Skólinn fyrr go nú". www.mr.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 10 June 2018.
- ^ "Inspector scholae". www.mr.is. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
- ^ Thor Thors (October 29, 1941). "Bréf frá New York". Heimskringla (in Icelandic). Winnipeg. p. 1.
- ^ Register - University of California. University of California Press. 1946. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
- ^ a b Kay, Ernest, Dictionary of Scandinavian Biography second edition, International Biographical Center, Cambridge, England, 1976
- Pueblo Chieftain, Pueblo center offers test for new citizens, Mary Jean Porter, October 6, 1997, p. 6A
- ^ Pueblo Chieftain, Volunteers spell tax relief: H-E-L-P R. Chris Burnett, (undated clipping) Einar R Kvaran pictured.
- ^ Meals on Wheels' needs intensify, Loretta Sword, Pueblo Chieftain, undated
- ^ Association of Former International Civil Servants, Directory of members, 2008, Office of the President, AFICS(NY), Room DC!-580, United Nations, New York
- ^ Review, Iceland (28 December 2012). "Re: Einar Ragnarsson Kvaran". Iceland Review. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
- ^ "EINAR KVARAN - Thursday, December 13th, 2012". Retrieved 10 June 2018.
- ^ Lögberg-Heimskringla, February 3, 1989 p. 6