Louis Bobé

Louis Theodor Alfred Bobé (born April 21, 1867 in Copenhagen , † August 28, 1951 in Dronningmølle ) was a Danish historian and university professor of German origin. He mainly researched the Danish nobility and castles, the time of Goethe , worked as an epistolograph and played a decisive role in Greenlandic historiography.

Life

family

Louis Bobé was the son of French- born German jewelry manufacturer Oscar Maximilian Bobé (1829–1901) and the Danish Johanne Louise Jensen (1831–1910), who was born in Naumburg (Saale ). On August 19, 1884 in Hedeby, he married Ernestine "Erna" Emma Lisette Sieh (1870–1934), the future German teacher from Altona , the foster daughter of the bank manager Nicolaus Friedrich Sieh (1823–1909) and his wife Margaretha Sophie Horn (1833–1913) . After her death on January 27, 1936 in Copenhagen, he married Carla Lisette Emilie Severin Nielsen Verw. Salomon (1877–1958), daughter of the decorative painter Oluf Severin Nielsen (1852–1933) and his wife Lisette Mathilde Schuster (1854–1929).

career

After graduating from school in 1886, Louis Bobé began studying language and literature at the University of Copenhagen , which he broke off. However, he began to develop an interest in history and began doing research at Rigsarkivet . In 1888 he published a treatise on the fire in the opera house of Amalienborg Palace on April 19, 1689. In 1890 he moved to Brahetrolleborg Palace to write a biography about the writer Jens Immanuel Baggesen , which he never completed. However, through contact with the castle owner Christian Einar Reventlow , he was able to collect letters on the other Reventlow estates with which he was able to describe the cultural currents from 1770 to 1830. From 1891 he researched the family history of the Ahlefeldt family on behalf of Christian Ahlefeldt-Laurvig . In 1896 he was at the court of Carl Alexander von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach to learn more about the time of Goethe . From 1898 to 1905 he was an assistant at Rigsarkivet, but quit because of personal differences with Reich archivist Vilhelm Adolf Secher . He then went on numerous study trips, some together with Christian Einar Reventlow, which took him to Tunisia . From 1905 to 1910 he was secretary in the Danish Writers' Union. In 1910 he received his doctorate with a treatise on the writer Friederike Brun . From 1911 to 1918 he was a teacher at the officers' school and also taught German language and literature and palaeography as a university lecturer.

From 1912 to 1915 he traveled the entire west coast of Greenland from Upernavik to Cape Farvel , originally following in the footsteps of Hans Egede . Together with the zoologist Adolf Severin Jensen , he had the idea in 1913 of writing a new topographical reference work on Greenland. For this purpose, he collected old archival materials on his trip in the Greenland colonies, which resulted in the establishment of the two Greenland state archives in Qeqertarsuaq and Nuuk . Together with Jensen, Georg Carl Amdrup and Hans Peder Steensby , he was the editor of the resulting two-volume work Grønland i tohundredeaaret for Hans Egedes landing , published in 1921 , to which he also contributed all the history chapters on the colonies of South Greenland .

From 1905 he was a member of the Royal Danish Society for the History and Language of the Fatherland. From 1917 to 1948 he was chairman of the Danish Genealogy and Personnel History Community. In 1921 he was appointed Royal Order Historiographer. From 1921 to 1924 he was chairman of Det Grønlandske Selskab . As a member of the Scoresbysund Committee from 1922, he was instrumental in founding Ittoqqortoormiit . In addition, he was a member of the East Greenland Commission from 1931 to 1933, which was founded because of the Danish-Norwegian territorial dispute over East Greenland . In 1910 he was made a knight of the Order of Dannebrog . In 1922 he became Dannebrogsmand . In 1933 he became commander 2nd degree and in 1937 commander 1st degree . He died in Dronningmølle in 1951 at the age of 84 and was buried in Copenhagen.

Authorship

Louis Bobé published nearly 1200 scientific papers during his life. From 1895 to 1897 he edited Detlev von Ahlefeldt's memoirs . From 1895 to 1932 he published nine volumes on Reventlow's letter collections. He also published other treatises on correspondence. Several of his works deal with the writer Charlotte Dorothea Biehl . From 1897 to 1912 he published his family history of the Ahlefeldts, based on years of research, in six volumes. In 1898 he wrote a book about the enlightenment Johann Caspar Lavater's trip to Denmark . In 1899 he published the three hundred year history of the Aristocratic Women's Foundation Roskilde . In 1909 he wrote a work about Brahetrolleborg Castle and the history of expeditions in Greenland in the 16th century. In the same year he published Jens Baggesen's Labyrinths and in 1911 Johannes Ewald's Levnet og Meninger . In 1914 he published the description of South Greenland by Egill Þórhallsson and in 1915 the reports by Lars Dalager . From 1917 he was co-editor of the yearbook of the Danish nobility. In 1919 he published a work on Frederiksborg Castle . In 1920 he wrote two books about the Holmens Kirke . In 1922/23 he was the editor of the three-volume work Danske Herregaarde , a reference work on Danish locks. In 1925 he published the notes of Hans Egede. In the same year he wrote about the German parish of St. Petri in Copenhagen, to which he himself belonged. In 1927 he published the diaries of Peder Olsen Walløe . The last major work to be published in 1936 was the 320-year collection of documents on Greenland.

Works (selection)

• 1895–1932: Efterladte Papirer fra den Reventlow'ske Familiekreds (nine volumes)
• 1897–1912: Slægten Ahlefeldt's history (six volumes)
• 1898: Johan Caspar Lavaters Rejse til Danmark 1793
• 1899: Roskilde noble Jomfrukloster 1699–1899
• 1900: State Minister Conrad Greve Rantzau-Breitenburgs Erindringer fra Kong Frederik Vls Tid
• 1901–1919: CD Biehl's Breve om Christian VII (two volumes)
• 1909: Aktstykker til Oplysning om Grønlands Besejling 1521–1607
• 1919: Knighthood in Schleswig-Holstein from the earliest times to the end of the Roman Empire in 1806
• 1921: Grønland i tohundredeaaret for Hans Egedes landing (two volumes)
• 1922/23: Danske Herregaarde (three volumes)
• 1925: The German St. Petri Congregation in Copenhagen
• 1936: Diplomatarium Groenlandicum 1492–1814
• 1940: Charlotte Amalie. Queen of Denmark, Princess of Hessen-Cassel and the beginnings of the German and French Reformed Church in Copenhagen
• 1950: De kongelige danske Ridderordener og medallers

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography in Dansk Biografisk Leksikon