Scholarship fund in Flensburg – applications open

Applications for a grant from the Jón Þórarinsson Education Fund are now open. Anyone who has passed the final examination from Flensburg School and is undertaking further studies may apply for a grant. Applications must be submitted electronically to the email address erla@flensborg.is, no later than midnight on Friday, 3 December 2021. The application should be marked 'Jón Þórarinsson Education Fund'. The application must be accompanied by certified documents regarding your academic career since completing your studies at Flensborgarskólinn, as well as any other information applicants believe supports their application.

Further information is available from Erla, the headmistress, on 565-0400.

About the Jón Þórarinsson Educational Fund at Flensburg School  

The Jón Þórarinsson Educational Fund The scholarship fund was established by the will of Anna Jónsdóttir, a photographer from Hafnarfjörður, who died on 4 July 1987. It is intended to support students who have completed the student's examination or another final examination from Flensborg School in Hafnarfjörður in their further studies. The Educational Fund was established by the will of Anna Jónsdóttir, a photographer in Hafnarfjörður, who died on 4 July 1987. Anna was the daughter of Jón Þorarinsson, headmaster of Flensborgarskólinn, and his first wife, Laura Pétursdóttir Hafstein. Jón was the headmaster of Flensborgarskólinn from its inception as a grammar school in 1882 until 1908, when he took up the newly established post of Director of Education, which he held until his death on 12 June 1926. Anna Jónsdóttir was born on 16 December 1892. She trained as a photographer and worked in her profession for many years in Hafnarfjörður. She was always very devoted to Flensborg School and followed its activities with keen interest. She was unmarried and childless and had decided long before her death that the school and its students should benefit from what she might leave behind. Her will stipulated that her estate should form a fund, to be named after Jón Þórarinsson, and be used „to support promising students who have completed their final examinations at Flensborg School in Hafnarfjörður for further studies“.

The first distribution from the fund took place on Anna's hundredth birthday, 16 December 1992, but since then the distribution has taken place at the graduation ceremony before Christmas. The School Board of Flensburg School is also the board of the Education Fund. Applications will be considered and processed at the board's meeting in early December. The board may divide the grant if necessary.

Further information about the fund can be found on the Flensburg School website.