Ludvig Ludvigsen Daae

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Ludvig Daae

Ludvig Daae , Ludvig Ludvigsen Daae (born December 7, 1834 in Aremark , † March 10, 1910 in Christiania ) was a Norwegian historian.

family

Daae's parents were the personal chaplain Ludvig Daae (1806-1835) and his wife Sara Jessine Louise Brock (1811-1891). On December 28, 1859 he married Johanna Sigvarda Koren (November 17, 1835– April 10, 1899), daughter of the feudal man Jess Diderichsen Koren (1793–1867) and his wife Margrethe Christine Reich (1797–1873).

Career

Daae's father died early and the mother married Pastor Hegermann Brochmann. The family moved to Kvinesdal in 1841 . In 1844 he attended school in Flekkefjord . In 1846 he came to the Cathedral School in Christiania. From 1850 he was a member of the " Det lærde Holland " group, which dealt with literature and history. In 1852 he passed the examen artium and then studied classical philology. He spoke fluent Latin and was an ardent admirer of Ludvig Holberg . In 1859 he passed his exam. After that he worked partly as a teacher, in 1860 as an assistant teacher at the Latin school in Drammen , partly he worked on the archive. The archive work took him to Sweden and often to Denmark, whereupon he established a close relationship with Denmark, especially with Copenhagen. In 1863 he received a scholarship from the university. In 1869 he became university librarian as the successor to Paul Botten-Hansen . The "Det lærde Holland" district had become more and more conservative and was at a distance from Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson . Daae wrote an anonymous pamphlet against Bjørnson in 1870 on the occasion of the election of the chairman of the student union. In 1876 he became a full professor of history at Christiania University , which he remained until his death. 1872–1880 he was also a history teacher at the war school .

Scientific work

Daae dealt with the Crusades, the history of the Pope and the Reformation, and humanism. His main research focus was on Norwegian history between 1380 and 1814, the time of Danish rule . Together with Michael Birkeland , Torkel Halvorsen Aschehoug and Ernst Sars , he belonged to the generation of the first researchers about the “Danish time”, most of whom belonged to the Det lærde Holland club . In 1867 there was a split in this group with Daae, Birkeland and Aschehoug on the one hand and Sars on the other. Sars described the time from a national perspective, while the others criticized this way of portraying the four centuries of communion with Denmark as a "false patriotic view". For Daae, this was a period of growth as Norway had been brought out of the Middle Ages. The Church was reformed, central institutions were established, new ways of doing business developed, and new classes of society had emerged. This position was not acceptable to the national left. He himself intensified the dispute by awarding the Danish royal family, and especially the Oldenburgers, great merit for the development of Norway. He praised Christian IV and made sure that a monument was erected for him in Christiania in 1880. Daae wrote against Sars the polemical text Om JE Sars's script "Historisk Indledning til Grundloven" (About JE Sars' script "Historical introduction to the constitution"). Here, in the middle of the constitutional struggle in 1880, a conservative and a radically national view of Norwegian history collided. He wrote many articles in professional journals, but also in the Morgenbladet . There he also published harsh articles against the nationally-minded.

Daae wrote many works, especially source editions of modern history: 1861 Breve fra bekjendte nordmænd til R. Nyerup , 1864 a selection from the papers of the Danish patron Johan von Bülow and files from Norway's church history. But he loved the short texts, articles, and essays more and avoided the great synthetic histories. His focus was on the history of politics, the church and science. In 1879 he wrote Kong Christiern's Førstes norske Historie 1448–1458 , a commemorative publication for the university anniversary of the University of Copenhagen. It is not only rich in detail, but also rich in hypothetical historiography, often pursuing initiatives that had led to nowhere and then considering how history would have gone if they had been successful. He discusses extensively what chances Sweden had to win Norway in the 15th century and how Norwegian history would have gone then. Works on the history and topography of individual places were also part of his area of ​​interest: Bidrag til Christianssunds Historie , Om de Hamarske Krøniker and En Krønike om Kvinesdal .

Daae mentions freedom in early Norway, but he emphasizes the limitations of that freedom due to the material poverty of most of them. That was especially dangerous for small peoples. Against Sars' pathetic assertion that the Norwegian nation will never die, he works out how close Norway was to doom when the Danes saved it in 1536.

Daae was a co-founder of Den norske historiske forening and Historisk Tidsskrift in 1869 and was a member of the board there until his death.

politics

Daae was conservative. Out of his pro-Danish stance, he sharply criticized left nationalism in the second half of the 19th century. Between 1868 and 1904 he wrote a number of articles against the left in the Morgenbladet . The conservative milieu around Morgenbladet dominated the intellectual climate in Christiania in the 1970s, to which Christian Friele , the newspaper's editor-in-chief, contributed. In the 70s and 80s Daae was also part of the circle around Carl Gulbranson, the leader of the so-called “November Association”, also known as “Høyre” (rights). These wanted to convert the Lagting into a House of Lords of the Storting in order to secure the influence of the civil service and to counteract the growing influence of the "People's Party" (Folkepartiet). In 1884 he was a co-founder and first chairman of the Grundlovsforening (constitutional association) in Aker and a speaker at many conservative meetings. Denmark was his spiritual home, Copenhagen was Norway's spiritual capital and the period after 1800 was marked by Norway's decline.

Honors

Daae was since 1864 a member of the Videnskabs-Selskabet (Scientific Society, today the Norwegian Academy of Sciences ) in Christiania, since 1871 a member of the Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab and of many foreign historical societies. In 1879 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Copenhagen on the occasion of its 400th anniversary. In 1893 he became a member of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala . He became a Knight of the Order of St. Olav in 1890 and was awarded the Commander's Cross 2nd Class in 1905. He was also a knight of the North Star Order and the Order of Dannebrog .

Selected works

  • Breve fra bekjendte nordmænd til R. Nyerup (1861)
  • Throndhjems stifts spiritual history from the reformations til 1814 (1863)
  • Johan von Bülows papirer (1864)
  • Lærebog i verdenshistorien (1864–1865) (textbook of world history, together with Siegv. Petersen)
  • Det gamle Christiania 1624-1814. Illustrated edition 1891
  • Norske bygdesagn (1870) (Norwegian local sagas. 2nd vol. 1870, 1872)
  • Breve fra danske og norske (1876) (letters from Danes and Norwegians)
  • Norges helgener (1879) (Norway's saint)
  • Matriculator over Nordiske Studerende ved Fremdmede Universiteter, Christiania [= Oslo] 1885
  • Om Bergens Bispedømme i Middelalderen
  • Bidrag til Norges historie i aarene 1434-l442
  • For Inger Ottesdatter og hendes døtre
  • Nordmænds udvandringer til Holland and England i nyere tid (1880)
  • Om Stavanger pen i middelalderen (1899)
  • Articles in Historisk Tidsskrift
    • Now study til Oprørshøvdingen Asmund Sigurdson's history.
    • Christopher Throndssøn Rustung, Hans Son Enno and Hans Datter Skottefruen
    • Erik af Pommerns, Danmarks, Sveriges och Norges kongens, giftermaal med Philippa, prindsesse af England. (Erich von Pomerania ... marriage with Princess Philippa ...)
    • Nordmænd and danske i Rusland i det attende aarh.

literature

The article is essentially based on the Norsk biografisk leksikon . Other information will be shown separately.

Web links

Commons : Ludvig Ludvigsen Daae  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Det lærde Holland" was a group in the 50s and 60s around Paul Botten-Hansen, whose members were called "Hollænderne".
  2. ↑ Examen artium is the university entrance exam; it corresponds to today's Abitur, but is accepted by the university.
  3. ↑ a b c d Nielsen: Daae, Ludvig Ludvigsen .
  4. ↑ a b Halvorsen, Bull
  5. ^ The "Novembervereinigung" was a conservative group that published the newspaper Budstikken . It owes its name to the founding month of November 1880. At this time, many like-minded associations were formed in the country under different names. They called themselves "Constitutional Association" or "Constitutional Association".
personal data
SURNAME Daae, Ludvig Ludvigsen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Daae, Ludvig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Aremark
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1910
Place of death Christiania