Tour of Ludvig Holberg's Copenhagen

Born in Bergen Lived in Copenhagen 1684 1703-1754 Tour of Ludvig Holberg’s Copenhagen

ENRESSH meeting in Copenhagen, 5 November 2018 n 1684: Born in Bergen 3. December. n Bergen was at that time Norway’s largest city with 15,000 inhabitants The celebration of Holberg’s 200th anniversary in Bergen 3rd December 1884 Bergen 3rd December 1884: Griegs’s Holberg Suite was composed on this occasion n 1691-1702: The cathedral school of Bergen n 1702: Bergen burns down. Goes to Copenhagen for final exam n 1702: Voss, Norway n 1703-04: Studies om Copenhagen The Bodleyan Library, Oxford n 1704-05: Travels to the Netherlands n 1705: Kristiansand, Norway n 1706-08: London and Oxford n 1708: Dresden and Leipzig n 1714-16: Copenhagen- Netherlands- Belgium-France- Italy-France- Germany- Copenhagen n 1725-26: Paris Professor at the University of Copenhagen 1717-1754 The most productive and influential author of the Enlightenment in Denmark and Norway

History

Fiction

Essays

Law and social science

Autobiography

0 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 Number of pages n 1702-28 and 1748-54: 32 comedies n 1741: The Journey of Niels Klim to the World Underground Published by Aarhus University Press Open Access to everything Holberg wrote

Am I dreaming, or am I awake?

Professor at the University of Copenhagen 1717-1754

We take the metro three stops to Nørreport (Northgate) We walk to the old university and Copenhagen’s quartier latin We will see the house where Holberg lived in his last years, and the student dormitory of his early years We go to Købmagergade (Merchant street) where he lived while writing his comedies We go to Ny Adelgade, where the theater (now gone) performed his comedies We go to Kongens Nytorv, where we find him in front of the Royal Theatre We continue to Nyhavn

We take the Harbour Bus (boat) to the Royal Library The Royal Library

We continue to the theatre museum at the old Court Theatre where the director, Peter Teilmann, will receive us for a guided tour and drinks

We must leave the Theatre Museum at 7pm at the latest