Vello Helk

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Vello Helk (born September 23, 1923 in Varstu , Võru County , Estonia , † March 14, 2014 in Birkerød ) was a Danish historian and archivist .

Life

After he was drafted into service in the German Wehrmacht in 1944, he went to Denmark as a DP after the end of the Second World War . From 1947 he studied history, Latin and German at the University of Aarhus . He focused on the northern European history of the 16th and 17th centuries; his specialty was the Norwegian Jesuit Laurentius Nicolai Norvegus . He has also researched and published on the Jesuits in Tartu and on Scandinavian students at southern European universities.

For more than 30 years (1959–1990) Helk worked at the Danish National Archives Rigsarkivet , from 1970 to 1990 as department head of the 4th section and from 1978 to 1979 as Denmark's deputy archivist. He retired in 1990.

In 1996 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Tartu .

From 1958 Helk was married to the music teacher Annemarie Jepsen (* 1924).

Fonts

  • The city school in Arensburg on Ösel in the Danish and Swedish periods 1559–1710 . Northeast German Cultural Work, Lüneburg, 1956.
  • Laurentius Nicolai Norvegus SJ: en biografi med bidrag til belysning af romerkirkens forsøg på at genvinde Danmark-Norge i tiden fra reformationen til 1622 . GEC Gads Forlag, Copenhagen, 1966.
  • The Jesuits in Dorpat 1583–1625: an outpost of the Counter Reformation in north-eastern Europe . Odense Universitetsforlag, 1977.
  • Register of students from Schleswig 1517–1864 . Kiel, 1991.
  • Estonia's history  (= Odense University studies in history and social sciences), Volume 170. Odense Universitetsforlag, 1994.
  • Stambogsskikken i det danske monarki indtil 1800: med en fortegnelse over danske, norske, islandske and slesvig-holstenske stambøger including udlændinges stambøger med indførsler fra ophold i det danske monarki . Odense Universitetsforlag, 2001.

literature

  • Merete Harding, Finn H. Lauridsen: Vello Helk. In: Dansk biografisk leksikon , 3rd ed., Gyldendal 1979–84 ( online resource ).
  • Enn Küng, Helina Tammann: Festschrift for Vello Helk on his 75th birthday. Contributions to the administrative, church and educational history of the Baltic Sea region. Tartu 1998, ISBN 9985-858-09-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ TARTU ÜLIKOOLI AUDOKTORID ( Memento from January 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Helk, Vello
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Varstu , Võru County , Estonia
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 2014
Place of death Birkerød