William Mollerup

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William Mollerup (1899), photograph by Sophus Juncker-Jensen

Arthur William Julius Mollerup (born September 19, 1846 in Copenhagen , † April 23, 1917 in Klampenborg ) was a Danish historian .

Life

Origin and family

Williams was a son of the lawyer Joachim André Mollerup (1817-1852) and Anna, née Kieler (1821-1892). He had eight children from his marriage to Caroline Susanne Ewald Rothe (1856–1938) in 1879, including the dancer Asta Mollerup (1881–1945) and the architect Tyge Mollerup (1888–1953).

Career

Mollerup visited the metropolitan cities until 1866 . He completed his history studies in 1872 as a magister artium . He then briefly worked in the Stockholm archives. In 1874 he went to Italy , where he was secretary at the Danish consulate for a year. He then made his living in Copenhagen as a teacher of history and geography and as a publishing historian.

Among other things, contributed to the Supplementet of the Regesta Danica (1876) or the 3rd edition of the Nordisk Konversationslexikon (1887). His dissertation, Denmark’s Relations with Livonia, 1346–1561 , was translated into German in 1884 . The first part of the family history of Bille Bille-Ættens Historie (1893) is also counted among his main works .

He was a corresponding member of the Society for the History and Archeology of the Baltic Sea Provinces of Russia since 1881 and a member of the Royal Danish Society for the History of Patriotism from 1896.

After various relevant positions in 1898 he became director of the Rosenborg Collection and as such head of the National History Museum in Frederiksborg Palace . He held this position until 1910.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Denmark's Relations with Livonia, 1346–1561 .