Research and researchers at the Danish National Archives
Research and researchers at the Danish National Archives
The Danish National Archives’ researchers are specialists in their individual fields. Get an overview of research topics and researchers.
The Danish National Archives is a research institution under the Ministry of Culture. One of the responsibilities of the Danish National Archives is to conduct research and spread awareness of the results of that research.
Researchers at the Danish National Archives
The researchers are experts in various fields and are available for guidance. See contact information, research areas, etc. under the individual researcher.
Archivist
Senior Researcher
Areas of research
- A contribution on the period 1842-1867 to the history of Vejle County Municipality
- A contribution about grain to Norway – to “1807”, North Jutland during the English Wars
- Adoptive and foster children in Denmark, 1750-2000
Read more about Annette Østergaard Schultz on the research portal PURE
- Telefon:
+45 41 71 74 53 - E-mail:
as@sa.dk
Archivist
Senior Researcher, PhD
Areas of research
- Social history 1700-1900
- Rural history 1700-1900
- Historical social mobility
- Illegitimate children
Read more about Asbjørn Romvig Thomsen on the research portal PURE
- Telefon:
+45 41 71 74 65 - E-mail:
at@rigsarkivet.dk
Senior Adviser
MA
Areas of research
- Denmark-Norway tropical colonies in Southeast Asia 1620-1845
- Danish history 1600s and 1700s
- The administration of foreigners in the 20th century
- The intersection between conservation and archives
Read more about Asger Svane-Knudsen on the research portal PURE
- Telefon:
+45 41 71 72 45 - E-mail:
ask@rigsarkivet.dk
Archivist
PhD
Areas of research
- Social history, 1800s and 1900s
- Historical demographics
- Censuses
- Disease and mortality
- Infant mortality
- Fertility
- Illegitimate children
- Historical methods
Read more about Bárbara Ana Revuelta-Eugercios on the PURE research portal
- Telefon:
+45 41 71 74 88 - E-mail:
bre@rigsarkivet.dk
Archivist
Senior Researcher, PhD
Areas of research
- Educational history in the 18th-20th centuries
- Church history 18th-19th centuries
- Public management history
Read more about Christian Larsen on the research portal PURE
- Telefon:
+45 41 71 72 30 - E-mail:
cla@rigsarkivet.dk
Head of Research
Associate Professor, dr.phil.
Areas of research
History of Southern Jutland and Schleswig-Holstein in the 19th and 20th centuries, especially the Danish and Schleswig-Holstein nationalist movement in the 19th century, H.P. Hanssen, the national struggle for land resources, the national minorities and the South Jutland business community.
Read more about Hans Schultz Hansen on the research portal PURE
- Telefon:
+45 41 71 74 01 - E-mail:
hsh@rigsarkivet.dk
Archivist
Senior Researcher, PhD
Areas of research
- Science, technology and culture in the 20th century
- Universities and business in the 20th century
- International and transnational scientific cooperation
- Nuclear power and the history of other nuclear technologies
- The scientific exploration of Greenland during the Cold War, with a focus on Danish and American cooperation
- Telefon:
+45 41 71 74 18 - E-mail:
hkn@rigsarkivet.dk
Archivist
Senior Researcher, PhD
Areas of research
Main research area is pre-1850 (approx.) Danish and European urban history .
Other research areas include various aspects of Danish legal, criminal, administration, social, medicine, education, military, migration and agricultural history.
Read more about Jørgen Mikkelsen on the research portal PURE
- Telefon:
+45 41 71 72 33 - E-mail:
jm@rigsarkivet.dk
Archivist
Senior Researcher, PhD
Areas of research
- Danish history 1750-2000
- Danish business history in the 1900s in an international perspective
- Foreign investments in Danish business
- Telefon:
+45 41 71 74 60 - E-mail:
kt@rigsarkivet.dk
Archivist
Senior Researcher, PhD
Areas of research
History of Southern Jutland in the 19th and 20th centuries, with special emphasis on administrative, economic and demographic matters. Special topics include industrial history as well as emigration history.
Read more about Leif Hansen Nielsen on the research portal PURE
- Telefon:
+45 41 71 74 42 - E-mail:
lhn@rigsarkivet.dk
Archivist
Senior Researcher, PhD
Areas of research 1870-1970
- History of sexuality (incest)
- Gender history
- Childhood history
- History of family life
- History of law and crime
Read more about Mette Fransiska M. Seidelin on the research portal PURE
- Telefon:
+45 41 71 74 54 - E-mail:
mfms@rigsarkivet.dk
Chief Assistant
MA
Areas of research
- Urban history (16th century)
- Rural history (18th century)
- Palaeography, heraldry, passporting (1800s)
- The Danish Topographical Tradition (1100-1860)
- The Plague in Denmark (1350-1711)
- Telefon:
+45 41 71 72 68 - E-mail:
mid@rigsarkivet.dk
Archivist
Senior Researcher, PhD
Areas of research
- Pollution, disease and health in Copenhagen, 1800-2000
- Colonial history, Danish colonies in the West Indies and India, 1700s and 1800s
- History of medicine and natural science, 1700s and 1800s
Read more about Niklas Thode Jensen on the research portal PURE
- Telefon:
+45 41 71 73 90 - E-mail:
ntj@rigsarkivet.dk
Archivist
Researcher
Areas of research
- Church history in the 1500s and 1600s
- The history of the Danish nobility in the 1500s and 1600s
- Connections between manor house and parish in the 1500s and 1600s
- Telefon:
+45 41 71 73 97 - E-mail:
pse@rigsarkivet.dk
Archivist
Senior Researcher, PhD
Research area
- World War II and the German occupation of Denmark
- The Danish Resistance
- Telefon:
+45 41 71 72 61 - E-mail:
pbi@rigsarkivet.dk
Archivist
Senior Researcher, PhD
Areas of research
- Danish economic and social history in the 19th and 20th centuries
- Penalty enforcement in the 20th century
- Telefon:
+45 41 71 73 53 - E-mail:
pf@rigsarkivet.dk
Archivist
Senior Researcher, PhD
Areas of research
- Danish history in the 20th century
- Denmark and the Great Powers 1900-1920
- Business history and societal development 1850-2015
- Occupation period 1940-1945
- Economic history
- Telefon:
+45 41 71 72 79 - E-mail:
stan@rigsarkivet.dk
Archivist
Senior Researcher, dr. phil.
Areas of research
- Cultural history of the 1700s
- Marginalised groups in the 1700s
- Philanthropic work and international relief work in the 19th and 20th centuries
- Telefon:
+45 41 71 72 85 - E-mail:
tk@rigsarkivet.dk
Research topics
1972 EC referendum, Southern Jutland
Peter Fransen
Accounting history
Kenn Tarbensen
Adopted and foster children
Annette Østergaard Schultz
Air pollution and health in Copenhagen, 1800-2000
Niklas Thode Jensen
Australia
Lif Lund Jacobsen
Business history, Danish after 1850
Kenn Tarbensen
Business history and societal development 1850-2015
Steen Andersen
Business history, Southern Jutland
Hans Schultz Hansen
Leif Hansen Nielsen
Censuses
Jørgen Mikkelsen
Childhood history
Mette Seidelin
Church history, 1700s to 1900s
Christian Larsen
Church history, 1500s and 1600s
Per Seesko
Colonial history, 1600-1900
Niklas Thode Jensen
Confiscation of German and Japanese property after the Liberation
Peter Birkelund
Connections between manor house and parish in the 1500s and 1600s
Per Seesko
Crime
Peter Fransen
Tyge Krogh
Mette Seidelin
Crisis management, 1914-21
Annette Østergaard Schultz
Cultural history, 1700s
Tyge Krogh
The Danish colonies in India
Niklas Thode Jensen
The Danish Halle Mission
Niklas Thode Jensen
Danish history in the 20th century
Steen Andersen
The Danish Resistance
Peter Birkelund
Denmark and the Great Powers 1900-1920
Steen Andersen
Domestic disputes
Mette Seidelin
Disability history
Christian Larsen
East Indies, Danish
Jørgen Mikkelsen
Economic history
Steen Andersen
Environmental history
Lif Lund Jacobsen
Erik Scavenius, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Prime Minister
Steen Andersen
Executions, 1700s
Tyge Krogh
First World War
Annette Østergaard Schultz
Hans Schultz Hansen
Fishing history
Lif Lund Jacobsen
Foreign investment
Kenn Tarbensen
The Galathea expeditions
Lif Lund Jacobsen
Genealogy, sources of
Michael Dupont
German seizure of Danish property, 1940-45
Peter Birkelund
Greenland, scientific exploration during the Cold War
Henrik Knudsen
Greenland, post-1900
Lif Lund Jacobsen
Hanssen, H.P.
Hans Schultz Hansen
Health care, 1800s
Jørgen Mikkelsen
History of Danish realskoler (secondary schools)
Christian Larsen
History of education
Christian Larsen
History of medicine, 1700-1800s
Niklas Thode Jensen
History of natural science, 1700s
Niklas Thode Jensen
History of science, post-1900
Lif Lund Jacobsen
History of sexuality
Mette Seidelin
History of Southern Jutland
Peter Fransen
Annette Østergaard Schultz
Hans Schultz Hansen
Leif Hansen Nielsen
The history of the Danish nobility in the 1500s and 1600s
Per Seesko
History of the Danish West Indies
Niklas Thode Jensen
Illegitimate children
Asbjørn Romvig Thomsen
Immigration, primarily before 1940
Jørgen Mikkelsen
Incest
Mette Seidelin
Juvenile delinquents
Peter Fransen
Juvenile prisons
Peter Fransen
Inge Lehmann and seismology
Lif Lund Jacobsen
International and transnational scientific cooperation
Henrik Knudsen
Holger Danske, resistance group
Peter Birkelund
Legal history, 1800s
Jørgen Mikkelsen
Legal history, 1870-1970
Mette Seidelin
Maritime history
Lif Lund Jacobsen
Multinationals
Kenn Tarbensen
North Jutland during the English Wars
Annette Østergaard Schultz
North Schleswig, minority and majority, 1945-1972
Hans Schultz Hansen
Nuclear power and the history of other nuclear technologies
Henrik Knudsen
The occupation period
Peter Birkelund
Steen Andersen
The Political Economy of Forced Labour: Organisation Todt during World War II
Steen Andersen
Prisons, Stokhuset, etc.
Jørgen Mikkelsen
Public management history
Jørgen Mikkelsen
Leif Hansen Nielsen
Annette Østergaard Schultz
Christian Larsen
Refugees, Germans in Southern Jutland
Leif Hansen Nielsen
Rural history, 1700s and 1800s
Asbjørn Romvig Thomsen
Science, technology and culture in the 20th century
Henrik Knudsen
Social history, 1800s and 1900s
Jørgen Mikkelsen
Mette Seidelin
Social history, 1700s and 1800s
Asbjørn Romvig Thomsen
Social mobility, historical
Asbjørn Romvig Thomsen
Technical engineers, post-1950
Peter Fransen
Trade and shipping
Jørgen Mikkelsen
Traffic history
Peter Fransen
Tranquebar
Niklas Thode Jensen
Transitional justice with the collaborationists after the occupation
Steen Andersen
Universities and business in the 20th century
Henrik Knudsen
Urban history, 1500-1870, Danish and European
Jørgen Mikkelsen
Vejle County Municipality, 1842-1970
Annette Østergaard Schultz
Violence against women
Mette Seidelin