Sebastian Olden-Jørgensen

Sebastian Olden-Jørgensen

PH.D.

  • Karen Blixens Plads 8

    2300 København S

Personal profile

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1964 10/3: Born in Gentofte, grew up in Snekkersten.

1983: Began to study history at the University of Copenhagen.

1992: Master's degree in history.

1994-1996: PH.D. scholarship at the Department of History, University of Copenhagen.

1997:  PH.D. degree at the Department of History, University of Copenhagen.

1997-2002: Research fellow at the Department of History, University of Copenhagen.

2002-2006: Assistant professor at the Department of History, University of Copenhagen.

2003: Received the Einar Hansens Forskningsfonds stipendium .

2003-2004: Alexander von Humboldt research fellow at the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel.

2006: Associate professor at the Saxo-Institute, History Section, University of Copenhagen.

Since 1999 member of the "Kildeskriftselskab" (the Society for Editing Danish Historicla Sources) and of its board, since 2004 chairman.

Since 2008 member of DSL (Society for Danish Language and Literature), from 2011 to 2020 member of the society's board.

Since 2014 member of the board of Den danske historiske Forening and secretary, hence co-editor of Historisk Tidsskrift (the Danish Historical Journal).

Primary fields of research

Danish and early modern history 1500-1800 especially in the fields of court history, intellectual history, the history of religious and political thought and historiography.

Current research

Danish political culture and clientelism in the reign of Frederick 4. and Queen Anna Sophie 1699-1730, Danish historiography 1500-1800. The fire of Copenhagen 1728.

Keywords

  • Faculty of Humanities
  • political culture
  • intellectual history
  • early modern Europe
  • history of experience
  • court culture
  • memory sites
  • Catholic church history
  • Ludvig Holberg
  • historiography