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Christen Mikkelsen Kold

1816–70

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Works by Christen Kold

  • Christen Kold Skjærbæk Fattighus [The Poorhouse at Skjærbæk].Dannevirke, No. 37, 5 February 1840.

  • Christen Kold Spørgsmål til en Sagkyndig [Questions to an Expert].Dannevirke, No. 43, 26 February 1840.

  • Christen Kold Et Par Ord til Jyden i Sjælland [Some Words to the Jutlander in Sjælland].Dannevirke, No. 59, 22 April 1840.

  • Christen KoldRejsen til Smyrna [The Journey to Smyrna]. Copenhagen, 1979. (Christen Kold's Diaries, 1842–47.)

  • Christen KoldOm Børneskolen [On the Children's School]. Copenhagen, 1877. (Posthumously published treatise.)

  • Christen Kold Historien om den lille Mis [The Story of the Little Cat].Lœsebog med Billeder for Småbørn [Illustrated Reader for Small Children]. Copenhagen, 1865.

  • Christen KoldTale ved ‘Det kirkelige Vennemøde’ 10.–11. september 1866 i København [Speech at the Annual Congregational Meeting in Copenhagen, 10–11 September 1866]. Ed. by K. Køster. Copenhagen, 1866.

  • Christen Kold Breve 1849–1870 [Letters 1849–1870]. In: R. Skovmand (ed.),Højskolens ungdomstid i breve [The Beginnings of the Folk High School in Letters]. Vol. 2, pp. 167–246. Copenhagen, 1960.

  • Christen Kold A number of these texts can be found in Hagemann, J.; Sørensen, H. (eds.).Christen Kold: Udvalgte tekster [Christen Kold: Selected Writings]. Copenhagen, 1967.

Works about Christen Kold

  • Berker, P.Christen Kolds Volkhochschule. Ein Studie zur Erwachsenenbildung im Dänemark des 19. Jahrhunderts [Christen Kold's Folk High School. A Study of Adult Education in Nineteenth-century Denmark]. Münster, 1984.

  • Borisch, S. M.The Land of the Living: The Danish Folk High Schools and Denmark's Non-Violent Path to Modernization, pp. 186–92. Nevada City, Calif., Blue Dolphin, 1991.

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  • Goodhope, N.Christen Kold: The Little Schoolmaster Who Helped Revive a Nation. Blair, Neb., Lutheran Publishing House, 1956. 119 p.

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  • Röhrig, P. Impressionen und Reflexionen aus dem Mutterland der Volkhochschule [Impressions and Reflections from the Motherland of the Folk High School].Neue Sammlung (Seelze, Germany), 19th Year, 1979, pp. 457–70.

  • Rørdam, T.The Danish Folk High Schools. Copenhagen, 1965, pp. 58–64.

  • Simon, E.Réveil national et culture populaire en Scandinavie [National Awakening and Popular Culture in Scandinavia], pp. 545–62. Paris/Uppsala, 1960. (Doctoral thesis.)

  • Wartenweiler-Haffter, F.Aus der Werdezeit der dänischen Volkhochshule. Das Lebensbild ihres Begründers Christen Mikkelsen Kold [An Account of the Danish Folk High School. The Life of its Founder: Christen Mikkelsen Kold]. Erlenbach/Zurich, 1921. 2nd ed.:Ein Sokrates in dänischen Kleidern. Christen Mikkelsen Kold und die erste Volkhochschule [A Socrates in Danish Costume. Christen Mikkelsen Kold and the First Folk High School]. Erlenbach/Zurich, 1929.

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The author wishes to express his gratitude to Professor Gunhild Nissen of Roskilde University Centre for numerous useful suggestions, and to Henning Silberbrandt, lecturer at Roskilde University Centre, for the translation of this article into English.

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Bjerg, J. Christen Mikkelsen Kold. Prospects 24, 21–35 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02199004

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