Ludvig Harboe
Ludvig Harboe (born August 16, 1709 in Broager , † June 15, 1783 in Copenhagen ) was an Evangelical Lutheran bishop . He was from Schleswig native and later Bishop of both the Icelandic diocese of Skálholt and Hólar and the dioceses of Nidaros in Norway and most recently Zealand in Denmark .
Life and education
Ludvig Harboe was born as the son of the superintendent and provost of Glücksburg in the Duchy of Holstein Johannes Harboe. He attended high school in Hamburg and then studied Protestant theology in Rostock , Wittenberg and Jena .
In 1738 he became an Evangelical Lutheran preacher at the garrison church in Copenhagen , and the following year pastor at the Kastelskirken .
His education and training was initially carried out in the German-speaking area. In line with these interests, in the same year he began to publish works under the collective title Danish Library or collection of old and new learned things from Denmark . The aim was to make scientific literature from Denmark accessible to Germans.
In 1741 the leadership of the Protestant Church in Denmark sent him to Iceland , which was under Danish rule at the time. He first took over the bishopric of Hólar in the north of the country, which he held from 1741 to 1745. In 1741 he examined the literacy status in Iceland on behalf of his church . After the seat of the Bishop of Skálholt in South Iceland became vacant in 1744, he temporarily took it over (until 1745) at the same time as his other office. However, he was not formally ordained bishop until after his return to Denmark in 1745.
From 1746 he worked as Bishop of Nidaros ( Trondheim ) in Norway. He had already received the appointment to this office in 1743.
In 1748 he returned to Denmark and married Frederikke Louise Hersleb, the daughter of the then Bishop of Zealand , Peder Hersleb . He was initially placed at his father-in-law's side as an adjunct and, after his death in 1757, took over the bishop's chair, making him primate of the Danish Church . In 1778 he edited a new hymn book together with Ove Høegh-Guldberg , then head of government. In 1782, due to his poor health, he received his son-in-law Nicolai Edinger Balle as an assistant, who succeeded him in the episcopate after his death.
literature
- A. Jantzen: Harboe, Ludvig . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 7 : I. Hansen – Holmsted . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1893, p. 84-87 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
Individual evidence
- ^ New general German library . tape 21 . Carl Ernst Bohn, 1796 ( google.de [accessed December 1, 2018]).
- ^ Entry of Ludvig Harboe's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Harboe, Ludvig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish clergyman, bishop |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 16, 1709 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Broager |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 15, 1783 |
| Place of death | Copenhagen |