Author · Denmark
Nikolai Grundtvig
Died in 1872
Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig was born in 1783 at the parsonage of Udby, near Vordingborg, the son of a pastor. Sent at the age of eight to the pastor of Thyregod, he studied theology in Copenhagen and went through a deep spiritual crisis in 1810. Placed under censorship in 1826 after a polemic, he left his post; the censorship was lifted in 1837. He sat in the Constituent Assembly in 1848-1849, served the church of Vartov from 1839 until the end, and received the title of bishop. Married three times, he died in Copenhagen in 1872, aged eighty-eight.
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