Career
From 1914 to 1950 he was a professor at the school formerly known as Retsog Statsvidenskabelige Fakultet (Jurisprudence and Political Science Faculty) (today known as the Juridiske Fakultet, or Legal Faculty) of the University of Copenhagen. He was one of the most beloved jurists of his time and was awarded the Hans Christian Ørsted Medal in 1933 for his five-volume work Ejendomsretten (Property Law). In 1940, he was offered a position with the German government which he refused, although he had sympathy with the goals of the right-wing political current in Europe.
Vinding Kruse was an adherent to the pure philosophy of natural law and was a sharp critic of the idea that courts should consist of an elite group to compel the masses toward a higher moral condition by controlling man"s natural evil tendencies.
Louis Frederik Vinding Kruse was born July 30, 1880 in Thisted the son of Christoffer Vinding Kruse and Maren Oline Nielsen. Frederik and Maren had one son, Anders Vinding Kruse, born May 4, 1921 in Copenhagen.
Anders followed his father in the law: 1947 Bachelor of Laws, 1950 Doctor of Laws. 1951 professor at the Aarhus University and 1955-1991 at the Copenhagen University.
1968 a guest professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Anders died January 15, 1995. Foreign an in-depth biography, see Frederik Vinding Kruse (1880–1963): En Juridisk Biografi by Jens Evald (), published in 2006, Juristog Økonomforbundets Forlag (Danish).