Court intrigues between pragmatic and secret history: Some 18th-century Danish solutions
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Court intrigues between pragmatic and secret history : Some 18th-century Danish solutions. / Olden-Jørgensen, Sebastian.
Early Modern Genres of History. red. / Emil Nicklas Johnsen; Ina Louise Stovner. Abingdon : Routledge, 2024. s. 178-200.Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Bidrag til bog/antologi › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Court intrigues between pragmatic and secret history
T2 - Some 18th-century Danish solutions
AU - Olden-Jørgensen, Sebastian
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - The present chapter examines how a selection of 18th-century Danish historians dealt with the subject matter of court history and negotiated the boundary between public and "secret" history. The civil servant and former royal historiographer Andreas Hojer (1690–1739), who wrote contemporary history (the life of King Frederick IV), tried to include as much secret history as possible but had to restrain himself because his work was destined for print. The gentleman historian Ludvig Holberg (1684–1754) would have loved to include much more secret history in his monumental History of Denmark (1732–35) but was hindered by lack of sources. The enlightened public intellectual P.F. Suhm (1728–98) tried his hand at real secret history but failed as an author. The radical N.D. Riegels (1755–1802) attempted the same but was frustrated by lack of sources. The only one to succeed in producing a comprehensive, frank, well informed and coherent piece of Danish secret history was the author Charlotta Dorothea Biehl (1731–88). Her "Historical Letters", dealing with the reigns of Frederich V, Christian VI, Frederick V and Christian VII, were written in 1784 for the information of the Crown Prince Frederick (VII) and for the enlightenment of posterity (published 1865).
AB - The present chapter examines how a selection of 18th-century Danish historians dealt with the subject matter of court history and negotiated the boundary between public and "secret" history. The civil servant and former royal historiographer Andreas Hojer (1690–1739), who wrote contemporary history (the life of King Frederick IV), tried to include as much secret history as possible but had to restrain himself because his work was destined for print. The gentleman historian Ludvig Holberg (1684–1754) would have loved to include much more secret history in his monumental History of Denmark (1732–35) but was hindered by lack of sources. The enlightened public intellectual P.F. Suhm (1728–98) tried his hand at real secret history but failed as an author. The radical N.D. Riegels (1755–1802) attempted the same but was frustrated by lack of sources. The only one to succeed in producing a comprehensive, frank, well informed and coherent piece of Danish secret history was the author Charlotta Dorothea Biehl (1731–88). Her "Historical Letters", dealing with the reigns of Frederich V, Christian VI, Frederick V and Christian VII, were written in 1784 for the information of the Crown Prince Frederick (VII) and for the enlightenment of posterity (published 1865).
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - historiografi
KW - Ludvig Holberg
KW - N.D. Riegels
KW - Charlotta Dorothea Biehl
KW - Andreas Hojer
KW - P.F. Suhm
KW - secret history
KW - public history
U2 - 10.4324/9781003331971-12
DO - 10.4324/9781003331971-12
M3 - Book chapter
SP - 178
EP - 200
BT - Early Modern Genres of History
A2 - Johnsen, Emil Nicklas
A2 - Stovner, Ina Louise
PB - Routledge
CY - Abingdon
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