Christian Ferdinand Monrad

Christian Ferdinand Monrad (born December 10, 1815 in Grejs Sogn , † June 1, 1889 in Flensburg ) was a Danish teacher .

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Christian Ferdinand Monrad was a son of the pastor Hans Christian Monrad (1780-1825) and his wife Ferdinandine Henriette, née Gjertsen (1793-1871). He attended the Sorø Akademi , which he left with the Abitur. He then studied theology and philology and finished his studies without a final exam. On November 16, 1859, he married Anna Thorine Thorsen (1820–1905) in Copenhagen , with whom he had no children.

He then worked as a teacher at the Danekvindeskole in Maribo . There he got to know Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig's pedagogical concept , which he did not, however, adopt in the narrower sense. In 1851 he switched to the school of scholars in Flensburg. Here he taught the historian Adolph Ditlev Jørgensen , with whom he maintained close contacts even after leaving school. At the same time he taught at a girls' school. The employment relationship ended after 1864 with the termination. Then he took over the girls' school himself.

Monrad's essential importance lies in his cultural commitment to Danish culture in the northern Schleswig region. He got in touch with important men from Copenhagen, with whom he founded the "Dannebrog" association in 1864. The association donated significant funds to Danish cultural workers in North Schleswig.

At the end of the 1860s, Monrad gave the impetus to create the Flensborg Avis as the Danish-language edition of the Flensburger Anzeiger. Together with Christian Christiansen Holdt, a private school teacher from Flensburg, he published the “Nordslesvigsk Søndagsblag” from 1880 onwards. The paper was enclosed in individual Danish newspapers in North Schleswig.

Monrad was also politically active, but did not achieve any leading positions. He kept in constant correspondence with his advisor and department head Theodor August Jes Regenburg . Monrad concentrated on the regions of Flensburg and North Schleswig. Since he did not believe that the areas south of Flensburg would come back to Denmark, he left this area out.

literature

• Abel Klose: Monrad, Christian Ferdinand . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 1. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1970, pp. 103-104