''Kongelig historiograf'' (''Historicus Regius'', "
Historiographer Royal Historiographer Royal is the title of an appointment as official chronicler or historian of a court or monarch. It was initially particularly associated with the French monarchy, where the post existed from at least 1550, but in the later 16th and 1 ...
") was a position in the kingdom of
Denmark-Norway (after 1814
Denmark
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) between 1594 and 1883.
The parallel office
in Sweden was established in 1618,
in England in 1660 and
in Scotland in 1681.
The office was originally created with the aim of producing a national history of Denmark from the 13th century, a "continuation of
Saxo", improving upon the first such work, published in the vernacular in 1600 by
Arild Huitfeldt
Arild Huitfeldt (Arvid) (11 September 1546 – 16 December 1609) was a Danish historian and state official, known for his vernacular Chronicle of Denmark.
Life
Huitfeldt was born into an aristocratic family from Scania, part of the Kingdom of ...
.
The office is not to be confused with that of ''kongelig ordenshistoriograf'', the position of official historian of the
Danish system of orders
which was established in 1808 and remains in existence today.
List of Historiographers Royal:
*
Niels Krag
Niels Krag (1550-1602), was a Danish academic and diplomat.
Krag was a Doctor of Divinity, Professor at the University of Copenhagen, and historiographer Royal.
Mission to Scotland
In August 1589 the Danish council decided that Peder Munk, Breide ...
: 1594-1602
*
Jon Jakobsen Venusinus: 1602-1608
*
Claus Christoffersen Lyschander: 1616-1623/4
*
Johannes Isacius Pontanus
Johan Isaaksz PontanusIn Latin Johannes Isacius Pontanus, in Danish Johan Isaksen (21 January 1571–7 October 1639) was a Dutch historiographer.
Pontanus was the son of Margaretha van Delen and Isaac Pietersz, the Dutch consul to Denmark stat ...
: 1618-1639 (appointed in parallel with Lyschander)
*
Johannes Meursius
Johannes Meursius (van Meurs) (9 February 1579 – 20 September 1639) was a Dutch classical scholar and antiquary.
Biography
Meursius was born Johannes van Meurs at Loosduinen, near The Hague. He was extremely precocious, and at the age of s ...
: 1624-1639
*
Stephan Hansen Stephanius: 1639-1650
*
Vitus Bering
Vitus Jonassen Bering (baptised 5 August 1681 – 19 December 1741),All dates are here given in the Julian calendar, which was in use throughout Russia at the time. also known as Ivan Ivanovich Bering, was a Danish cartographer and explorer in ...
: 1650-1675
*Ivar Nielsen Hertzholm (uncertain, mentioned as royal historian in the first edition of ''Dansk biografisk leksikon'', but not in the improved third edition).
*Willum Worm: 1679-1704
*Christoff Heinrich Amthor: 1714-1721
*Andreas Hojer: 1722-1730
*
Hans Gram: 1730-1748
*
Peter Frederik Suhm
Peter Frederik Suhm (18 October 1728 – 7 September 1798), was a Danish historian.
Biography
Suhm studied at the University of Copenhagen from 1746 to 1751, and one of his teachers was Ludvig Holberg. In 1749 he translated a comedy of Plautu ...
: 1787-1798
*Ove Malling: 1809-1829
*Caspar Frederik Wegener: 1847-1883
References
*Harald Ilsøe: "Svanning, Vedel, Huitfeldt og Krag. Omkring spørgsmålet om den første historiografudnævnelse" in: Grethe Christensen, Karl-Erik Frandsen, Kai Hørby, Benito Scocozza og Alex Wittendorf (eds.), '' Tradition og kritik'' (1984), pp. 235–258.
Historians of Denmark