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Troels Frederik Lund was born on September 5, 1840 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Troels Frederik Lund was born on September 5, 1840 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Troels Frederik Lund entered the university of Copenhagen in 1858.
About the age of thirty he took a post which brought before his notice the treasures of the archives of Denmark.
His first important work, Historiske Skitser, did not appear until 1876, but after that time his activity was stupendous.
In 1879 was published the first volume of his Danmarks og Norges Historie i Slutningen af del xvi. Aarhundrede, a history of daily life in Denmark and Norway at the close of the 16th century.
Saying very little about kings, armies and governments, Troels Lund concentrates his attention on the life, death, employments, pleasures and prejudices of the ordinary men and women of the age with which he deals, using to illustrate his theme a vast body of documents previously neglected by the official historian.
Lund was appointed historiographer-royal to the king of Denmark and comptroller of the Order of the Dannebrog. There was probably no living man to whom the destruction of the archives, when Christiansborg Castle was accidentally burned in 1884, was so acute a matter of distress. But his favourite and peculiar province, the MSS. of the 16th century, was happily not involved in that calamity.
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