Louis Christian Oliver Zachariasen known as Louis Zachariasen was a Faroese writer and politician.
Education
Zachariasen took a degree as a school teacher from Føroya Læraraskúli in Tórshavn in 1911, he went to a Folk high school in Denmark in 1915, in 1918 he took examen artium, and in 1924 he took a degree as Master of Science in Engineering (Danish: candpolyt) from Polyteknisk Læreanstalt in Copenhagen.
Career
He was the first deputy prime minister of the Faroe Islands after the island got home rule in 1948. He moved back to the Faroe Islands where he was employed by the Faroese Telephone Company (Telefonverk Føroya Løgtings) in 1925, he became Chief Executive Officer for the company from 1936–1952. He was also the president of the Collegium Academicum Faeroense 1933–1942.
Zachariasen took active part in the He and other worked for the rights to use the Faroese language in all offial matters.
He had a degree as a school teacher, but he refused to teach the Faroese children in the Danish language, as the law ordered him to do. He therefore stopped working as a teacher in protest and moved to Denmark for some years in order to get another education.
He also took active part in the by writing poems, plays, novels and other texts in Faroese. Louis Zachariasen was the grand father of the Tjóðveldi politician Kristina Háfoss.
Louis Zachariasen married Kristina Frederikka Hentze from Sandur, they lived in Tórshavn.