Bo Fritzbøger

Primary fields of research

All aspects of the interaction between humans and their physical environment since the early modern period.

Current research

• The modern breakthrough of Danish forestry, 1873-1926
• Living Liexu de Mémoire. The cultural and natural history of ancient oaks
• Forests’ many natures. Imaginaries, knowledge and expectations about Danish forestry, 1921-2021

Teaching

I teach and supervise within the following fields:

• Early modern Danish microhistory
• European and North American environmental and climate history since 1500 AD
• Danish and Scandinavian agrarian and forest history since 1500 AD
• Danish and Scandinavian landscape and settlement history since 1500 AD
• The histories of social relations, law and mentality in the Danish society of the 17^th and 18^th centuries
• The history of property right

CV

Employment etc.

• 2025- Member of UCPH's One Planet Board
• 2015-18 Deputy Director of the Saxo-Institute
• 2013-15 member of the UCPH senate
• 2013-15 deputy chairman of Academic Council
• 2014 deputy platform representative in the platform "Making transitions happen" under the EIC Climate-KIC
• 2012-14 member of the Local Organising Committee of the 2014 IARU-Conference
• 2012-13 chairman of Academic Council
• 2012-14 member of the steering committee for the UCPH Sustainability Science Center
• 2012-13 director of Centre for Cultural Studies in Sustainability, Faculty of Humanities,UniversityofCopenhagen
• 2010-12 Head of Saxo/CPh, Research Training Programme for Archaeology, Ethnology, Greek and Latin, and History (approx. 40 PhD-students)
• 2009-12 member of the Universityof Copenhagenworking group (and since 2011 of the steering group) preparing the MA Study programme Climate Change – Impacts, Mitigation, Adaption
• 2007-2010 Director of Studies, Saxo-Institute (approx. 2,000 students, 6 BA Study Programmes, 7 MA Study Programmes)
• Since 2006 Associate professor (lektor) in the Saxo-Institute, University of Copenhagen
• 2004-2005 Assistant professor (adjunkt) in the Saxo-Institute, University of Copenhagen
• 2003 Senior lecturer (lektor) in Forest & Landscape, The Royal Veterinarian and Agricultural University, partly financed by an individual scholarship from the Research Council for the Humanities
• 2002 Consultant, Society of Danish Hedgerow Planters
• 2000-2002 Carlsberg Foundation Postdoctoral Scholarship (forskningsstipendium) without institutional affiliation
• 1997 scientific assistant (amanuensis) in Department for Economics, Forestry and Landscape, The Royal Veterinarian andAgriculturalUniversity
• 1995-2000 senior lecturer (forskningslektor), Department of History,UniversityofCopenhagen, attached to three major interdisciplinary research projects:

• Land-Use History and Plant-Diversity (headed byBent Aaby,DanishNationalMuseum)
• Borders in the Landscape (headed byKjell Nilsson,ResearchCenter forForest and Landscape)
• Cultural Processes in Nordic Woodland Communities (headed by Ingvar Kaldal,NorwegianUniversity of Science and Technology)
• 1993-2003 External lecturer (ekstern lektor), Department for Economics, Forestry and Landscape, The Royal Veterinarian andAgriculturalUniversity
• 1992-95 Postdoctoral research fellow (forskningsstipendiat), Department of History, UniversityofCopenhagen
• 1992 Consultant for the DanishForestand Nature Agency
• 1991 Consultant for the Danish Broadcasting Corporation
• 1988-91 PhD-student (kandidatstipendiat), Department of History,UniversityofCopenhagen
• 1986-87 Sub-editor, Nordic Research Project on Deserted Farms and Villages
• 1986-87 Carlsberg Foundation Postgraduate Scholarship (scholarstipendium)