Símun Petur Zachariasen

Símun Petur Zachariasen (November 2, 1887 – October 15, 1977) was a Faroese teacher, editor, and politician for the Home Rule Party.

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.

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).