Ludvig Harboe

Ludvig Harboe ( born August 16, 1709 Broager, † June 15, 1783 in Copenhagen ) was an Evangelical- Lutheran bishop. He was a native of Schleswig and later bishop of both the Icelandic bishoprics of Skálholt and Hólar and the dioceses of Nidaros in Norway and most recently Zealand in Denmark.

Life and education

Ludvig Harboe was born the son of a provost in the Duchy of Schleswig. He attended secondary school in Hamburg and studied Protestant theology in Rostock, Wittenberg and Jena.

It was 1738 Evangelical Lutheran preacher at the Garrison Church in Copenhagen, in the following year pastor at the Kastelskirken.

His training and imprinting was first made ​​in the German language area. According to these interests he started the same year with the publication of writings under the collective title "Danish Library or collection of old and new things learned from Dännemark ". The goal was to make the German scientific literature accessible from Denmark.

In 1741 he sent the head of the Protestant Church in Denmark to Iceland, which at the time was under Danish rule. He first took over the see of Hólar in the north of the country, a position he held from 1741 to 1745. 1741, he also examined on behalf of his church the state of literacy in Iceland. After the seat of the Bishop of Skálholt in southern Iceland had become vacant in 1744, he took him temporarily (until 1745) at the same time with his other office. He was ordained a bishop formally but only after his return to Denmark in 1745.

From 1746 on, he served as Bishop of Nidaros / Trondheim in Norway. The appointment to this office he had already received in 1743.

In 1748 he returned to Denmark and married Frederikke Hersleb Louise, daughter of the then Bishop of Zealand, Peder Hersleb. He was his father initially provided as Asdjunkt to the side and took over after his death in 1757 the bishop's throne, making him Primate of the Danish Church. In 1782 he received due to his failing health, his son Nikolai Edinger Balle as an assistant, who succeeded him after his death in the Episcopate.