Danske Studier

100 år med Danmarks Stednavne

Birgit Eggert, Johnny G.G. Jakobsen, Rikke Steenholt Olesen — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0200

Names are an important part of the intangible cultural heritage that our language represents and placenames are an important source for many subjects such as language research, geography, history, archaeology etc. Therefore, it is an important task to provide knowledge about place-names in a form that can be used widely. This knowledge can be found in the book series Danmarks Stednavne (‘Place-Names of Denmark’), and in 2022, it is one hundred years since the first volume of the series was published. In this article, we present the editorial history of the series and describe the process in the development of the volumes, each standing on the shoulders of its predecessors. The series’ chosen form of production based on a land-registration system, which today can be considered obsolete, is explained, along with the variation regarding which classes of place-names have been treated in each volume and the varying inclusion of settlement-historical presentations based on the place-name evidence. While such issues have changed, the series has upheld a consistent focus on listing historical forms of the place-names and interpreting their etymology. The presentation of the publishing process and changed editorial principles in the course of time are rounded off with the current editorial plans for the future of Danmarks Stednavne.

Kongedatteren og hendes ghost writer

Sebastian Olden-Jørgensen — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0200

On the first of May 1673 Leonora Christina (1621-98), daughter of King Christian IV and his morganatic second wife Kirsten Munk, finished her so called French autobiography (preserved in her own hand in The Royal Library in Copenhagen and issued in a new critical edition in 2021). The text is addressed to some »Monsieur« and gives a charming and rather smug account of her turbulent life as viewed from the prison cell in Copenhagen where she had been locked up since 1663. Traditionally the anonymous addressee has been identified as the scholar Otto Sperling the younger (1634-1715) who is supposed to have used the autobiography as the main source for a short Latin biography of her in his De foeminis eruditis, an unfinished collection of 1.399 learned women of all nations and ages preserved in the manuscript collection of The Royal Library in Copenhagen. A systematic comparison between Sperling's Latin biography of Leonora Christina (soon to be published in Fund og Forskning i Det Kongelige Biblioteks Samlinger) and the French autobiography demonstrates conclusively that Sperling's text is not based on hers, and it is therefore highly improbable that he is the »Monsieur« for whom she wrote her life's story. The real addressee possibly is Admiral Henrik Bjelke (1615-83) who fits the bits of information on »Monsieur« that can be gathered from the French autobiography and other sources. This new understanding of the text's genesis not only changes the identity of the original addressee and offers a better explanation of several details such as the autobiography's unmitigated aristocratic bias. It also means that Sperling's Latin biography is not merely an adaption of another known text but an original source based on a series of interviews with Leonora Christina around 1690. This brings his text in much greater proximity to the old lady herself.

Af en endnu Levendes Papirer

Joakim Garff — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0200

My intent with the present piece is to show that in From the Papers of One Still Living, Published against His Will by S. Kjerkegaard (1838), Kierkegaard presents us with a critical review of Hans Christian Andersen’s Only a Fiddler (1837), which he bases on his notion that Andersen’s work is a failed attempt at a Bildungsroman. Following a brief presentation of the assumptions—both those concerning aesthetics and those that were typical of the period—implicit in Kierkegaard’s review, I point out a number of aspects of Andersen’s novel in connection with which I maintain that Kierkegaard himself does not live up to his own requirement that Andersen embrace a correct »outlook on life.« I support my argument by investigating the rhetoric of Kierkegaard’s review, and I conclude by suggesting that both Kierkegaard and Andersen should be considered modern writers and that this is attributable, not least, to their break with the literary metaphysics of the Bildungsroman.

Johan Fjord Jensen: Den ny kritik.

Jan Rosiek — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0200

Jubilæumsanmeldelse af Johan Fjord Jensens Den ny kritik (1962) i anledning af 60-året.

Samlede anmeldelser

Danske Studier — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0200

Anmeldelser af:

Henrik Jørgensen: Ebba Hjorth (hovedredaktør), Henrik Galberg Jacobsen, Bent Jørgensen, Birgitte Jacobsen, Merete Korvenius Jørgensen
og Laurids Kristian Fahl (red.): Dansk Sproghistorie, bd. 5. Dansk i Samspil.

Jon Haarberg: Johnny Kondrup (hovedredaktør): Dansk Editionshistorie, bd.1-4.

Erik Skyum-Nielsen: Anders Juhl Rasmussen & Thomas Hvid Kromann (red.): Danskeforfatterarkiver.

Sebastian Olden-Jørgensen: Helene Peterbauer: The Princess in the Tower Revisited. Four Centuries of Constructing Leonora Christina through Fact and Fiction

Torben Jelsbak: Søren Blak Hjortshøj: Son of Spinoza: Georg Brandes and Modern Jewish Cosmopolitanism. Georg Brandes: Human Rights and Oppressed Peoples: Collected Essays and Speeches. Oversat, redigeret og med indledning af William Banks. Georg Brandes: Vorlesungen über Friedrich Nietzsche (1888). Aristokratischer Radicalismus (1889/1890). Dansk-Tysk parallel udgave. Udgivet af Gert Posselt og Per Dahl.

Jens Lohfert Jørgensen: Jens Bjerring-Hansen, Torben Jelsbak og Anna Estera Mrozewicz (red.): Scandinavian Exceptionalisms. Culture, Society, Discourse.

Jørn Erslev Andersen: Jonas Holst: Peter Seeberg – Æstetik, eksistensfilosofi og kulturanalyse i Peter Seebergs skønlitterære forfatterskab