Thue Christiansen

{{Short description|Greenlanic politician and designer of the Greenland flag (1940–2022)}}

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| name = Thue Christiansen

| image = Flag of Greenland.svg

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| caption = The flag of Greenland, designed by Christiansen

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| birth_date = February 25, 1940

| birth_place = Maamorilik, Greenland

| death_date = {{death date and age|2022|6|26|1940|2|25}}

| death_place = Hals, Denmark

| nationality = Greenlandic

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| occupation = Teacher, visual artist, politician

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Thue Christiansen (25 February 1940 – 26 June 2022) was a Greenlandic teacher, visual artist, and politician. Christiansen is best known as the designer of the current flag of Greenland, which was adopted on 21 June 1985.{{cite news |title=Greenland's flag |work=Nordic Council |url=https://www.norden.org/en/information/greenland-flag |access-date=8 May 2012}} A trained teacher, Christiansen was elected to the Inatsisartut for Siumut in 1979 when Greenland was granted home rule. He was the Greenlandic Minister of Culture and Education from 1979 until 1983.{{Cite book |last1=Dennis |first1=Yvonne Wakim |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OnBrDQAAQBAJ&dq=Thue+Christiansen&pg=PT800 |title=Native American Almanac: More Than 50,000 Years of the Cultures and Histories of Indigenous Peoples |last2=Hirschfelder |first2=Arlene |last3=Flynn |first3=Shannon Rothenberger |date=18 April 2016 |publisher=Visible Ink Press |isbn=978-1-57859-607-2 |language=en}}

Christiansen died on 26 June 2022, at his home in Hals, Denmark.{{cite news |last=Veirum |first=Thomas Munk |date=26 June 2022 |title=Skaberen af Erfalasorput er sovet ind |newspaper=Sermitsiaq |url=https://sermitsiaq.ag/skaberen-erfalasorput-sovet |access-date=26 June 2022}} He was 82.