N.F.S. Grundtvig : a life recalled : an anthology of biographical source-texts / translated from the Danish and edited by S.A.J. Bradley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bradley, S. A. J.

Grundtvig, N. F. S. (Nicolai Frederik Severin), 1783-1872.

Series:

Grundtvig, N. F. S. (Nicolai Frederik Severin), 1783-1872. English. 2008 ; Selections. v. 1.

Grundtvig in English series ; v. 1

Skrifter udgivet af Grundtvig Selskabet

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clergy--Denmark--Biography.

Clergy.

Lutheran Church--Clergy--Biography.

Lutheran Church.

Grundtvig, N. F. S. (Nicolai Frederik Severin), 1783-1872.

Grundtvig, N. F. S.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (598 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Aarhus : Aarhus University Press ; Oakville, CT : D. Brown Book Co. [distributor], c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

N.F.S. Grundtvig, one of the chief shapers of Denmark's modern identity and still an active force in Danish social, political and religious life, was an outstanding intellect of 19th century Europe. He was the contemporary and dialectical adversary of Søren Kierkegaard, but his copiously documented life's work has nevertheless remained - for want of adequate translations - little known to the English-speaking world.As the new-Europe reviews the old traditional cultural canon, reflective of the most dominant nations, interest grows in Grundtvig as educationalist, theologian and churchman, histo

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Colophon; Foreword; Contents; Introduction; A Selection of significant dates, 1783-1872; Part one - Grundtvig's memoirs; An autobiographical sketch; 1. Papers of Thomas Hansen Erslew; Childhood and early youth; 2. Grundtvig's Diary, reworked version (1804); 3. Mands Minde (1838, 1877); 4. Mands Minde (1838, 1877); 5. Mands Minde (1838, 1877); 6. Grundtvig's Diary, reworked version (1804); 7. Grundtvig's Diary, reworked version (1804); 8. Mands Minde (1838, 1877); 9. Sermon in Frederiks Kirke, New Year's Day 1834; 10. Grundtvig's Diary, reworked version (1804)

11. Annotations on a biography in Conversations-Lexicon der Gegenwort (1839)12. Grundtvig's Diary, reworked version (1804); Student years in Copenhagen; 13. Grundtvig's Diary, reworked version (1804); 14. Grundtvig's Diary, reworked version (1804); ; 15. Mands Minde (1838, 1877); 16. Grundtvig's Diary, reworked version (1804); 17. Mands Minde (1838, 1877); 18. Mands Minde (1838, 1877); 19. Mands Minde (1838, 1877); 20. Mands Minde (1838, 1877); 21. Grundtvig's Diary, reworked version (1804); 22. Grundtvig's Diary, reworked version (1804); 23. Grundtvig's Diary, reworked version (1804)

24. Grundtvig's Diary, reworked version (1804)25. Grundtvig's Diary, entry dated 31 December 1804; 26. Grundtvig's Diary, continuation of entry dated 31 December 1804; 27. Grundtvig's Diary, continuation of entry dated 31 December 1804; Egeløkke (1805-1808); 28. Grundtvig's Diary, from the entry dated 20 November 1805; ; 29. Grundtvig's Diary, from entries dated 5 December and 31 December 1805; 30. Grundtvig's Diary, from the entry dated 10 September 1806; 31. From a memorandum dated 30 December 1806; 32. Letter to Christian Molbech; Denmark c. 1807-1814; 33. Mands Minde (1838, 1877)

34. Mands Minde (1838, 1877)Probational sermon and Christian breakthrough; 35. Om Religions-Frihed. (Tredie og Sidste Stykke); 36. Fragment of a note apparently from the end of 1810; Two glimpses from 1812-1814; 37. Roskilde-Saga (1814); 38. Mands Minde (1838, 1877); The "seven lean years" 1813-1820; 39. Om Religions-Frihed, (Tredie og Sidste Stykke); 40. Kiærminder til Kong Frederik den Sjettes Krands(1840); 41. Om Religions-Frihed. (Tredie og Sidste Stykke); 42. Mands Minde (1838, 1877); 1824 - Retrospect and new ferment; 43. Brevveksling mellem Nørrejylland og Christianshavn

44. Nyaars-Morgen (1824), Fortalen45: Sermon in Vor Frelsers Kirke, Ninth Sunday after Trinity, 31 July 1825; 46. Om Religions-Frihed. (Tredie og Sidste Stykke); The visits to England 1829-1831; 47: Article in Grundtvig's periodical Danskeren I(1848); 48: Mands Minde (1838, 1877); 49. Mands Minde (1838, 1877); 50. Introduction to Phenix-Fuglen. Et angelsachsisk Kvad; From the later years; 51: Mands Minde (1838, 1877); 52: Mands Minde (1838, 1877); 53: Sermon in Vartov Church, Wednesday 1st May 1844; 54: Article in Grundtvig's periodical Danskeren I(1848)

55: Sermon in Vartov Church, 11th Sunday after Trinity, 19 August1855

Notes:

Includes texts from Grundtvig's memoirs.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 37) and index.

ISBN:

87-7934-007-5

OCLC:

817900319