Laurids Engelstoft

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Laurids Engelstoft

Laurids Engelstoft (born December 2, 1774 in Hobro ; † March 14, 1851 ) was a Danish historian.

Life

His parents were the pastor Christian Engelstoft (1734-1803) and his wife Eleonore Hedvig Lillelund († 1815), daughter of the church historian and pastor Lillelund. He married Magdalene Cathrine Estrup (* 1786, † 1878), daughter of the pastor Peder Estrup.

Engelstoft was first homeschooled by his father. When he was 15 he started at Randers School . In 1791 he began his studies in Copenhagen. In 1796 he passed the theological state examination with distinction. He then decided to devote himself to science and began to work on university award assignments. In 1797 he received the gold medal for his work Om Kvindekjønnets huslige og borgerlige Kaar hos Skandinaverne før Kristendommens Indførsel (About the domestic and civil conditions of women among the Scandinavians before the introduction of Christianity). In the same year he disputed his treatise Hieronymus Stridonensis interpres, criticus, exegeta, apologeta, historicus, doctor, monachus: symbola ad historiam seculi quarti ecclesiasticam . He gained great recognition and was able to start studying abroad with public support in 1797. On October 30, 1797 he was in Eutin with Johann Heinrich Voss . Then he turned to Göttingen, then he moved to France via Holland and Belgium. He came to Paris in November 1798 when the second coalition war broke out shortly afterwards . In Paris he got to know many important scientists. On May 9th, 1800 Malthe Conrad Bruun and on June 6th, 1800 Wilhelm von Humboldt signed in his stud book. Shortly afterwards he returned to Denmark. There the official careers had become narrow, and only after the publication of the work of Philip August Konge af Frankrige og Ingeborg Prinsesse af Danmark. En historisk Undersögelse and Om den Priis, Oldtidens Scandinavians satte på Legemsøvelser, most med hensyn til Nationalopdragelsen. Et Indbydelsesskrift til the public exam i det Schonboeske Institute (About the price that the Scandinavians of the early days offered for physical exercises, with special regard to national education. An invitation to the public exam in the Schonboeske Institute) he became an adjunct in history and geography in 1802 at the philosophical faculty. In 1803 he wrote Commentatio de pretio Literarum Romanarum nostra aetate rite aestimando and became an associate professor, but only received his salary from 1805. In 1817 he became a full professor.

He took great care of the training, especially as far as it could influence the development of the national character. In 1805 he became secretary of the university directorate, in 1812 assessor of the directorate and was a member from 1817 to 1832 and from 1840 to 1848. His Universitets- og Skoleannaler (1806–1813) show the attentiveness with which he followed school problems abroad in order to develop proposals for Denmark. When he traveled to Rendsburg as a university lecturer and stayed there from 1807 to 1808, he wrote the pamphlet Tanker om Nationalopdragelsen, som det virksomste Middel til at fremme Almenaand og Fædrelandskærlighed (Thoughts on popular education, regarded as the most effective means of to promote common sense and patriotism), which attracted great attention. In it he described how the youth should be raised to feel like sons of the land and heirs to a great past. For this, the main focus should be on knowing your own country. He thus played a large part in the university reforms of the next half century. He was convinced of Herde's idea that the people's identity would be realized in language and, as in the time of national romanticism in general, saw the people as an organism with its own national spirit.

In contrast, his authorship resigned in historical studies. His work Blik paa Forsvarsvæsenets Forfatning og Tilstand i det byzantinske Rige under Kejser Justinian I (View of the constitution and the state of defense in the Byzantine Empire under Emperor Justinian I) (1815) and Vienna's Belejring af Tyrkerne 1683 (Siege of Vienna by the Turks 1683) (1817) were exemplary, but no further larger works followed. Together with Erich Christian Werlauff, he wrote the Historisk Calendar in three volumes (1814-1817). He was also co-editor of the Journal for udenlandsk Litteratur and Maanedsskrift for Litteratur , but otherwise he limited himself to the publication of incidental finds in archival files that showed parallels to events of prehistoric times, especially when it came to the defense of the fatherland. These include Christian IV's Forsøg paa at afskaffe Vornedskabet ( Christian IV's attempt to abolish serfdom) and Kjøbenhavns Stilling og Farer i Sommeren 1700 (Copenhagen's position and dangers in the summer of 1700). He was also co-author of the Glossary of the Frisian language, especially in North Frisian dialect, for comparison with the related Germanic and Nordic, also with an appropriate view of the Danish language (Copenhagen 1837).

Honors

In 1811 he was given the title of Counselor of Justice, in 1836 that of a conference councilor and he became an order historiographer. In 1812 he became a member of "Det danske Videnskabernes Selskab" (Danish Scientific Society) and in 1813 of "Danske Selskab" (Danish Society), of which he was chairman from 1829 until his death. In 1840 he became the commander of the Dannebrog Order and in 1848 he received its Grand Cross.

literature

Individual evidence

The article is essentially based on the Dansk historisk lexikon . Other information is shown separately.

  1. ↑ a b Helk p. 147.
  2. ↑ Helk p. 148.
  3. ↑ This book founded the research on sport in early Scandinavia, which was not continued until after 1900. (Henning Eichberg: Den levende vekselvirkning . In: Idrætshistorisk Årbog , 1985, No. 1 pp. 45–59, 45.)
personal data
SURNAME Engelstoft, Laurids
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Engelstoft, Laurits
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1774
PLACE OF BIRTH Hobro
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1851
Place of death Copenhagen