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Vilhelm Peter Grønbech (14 June 1873 – 21 April 1948) was a Danish cultural historian. He was professor of the history of religion at the University of Copenhagen and also had a great influence on Danish intellectual life, especially during and after World War II. ==Life and career== Grønbech was born in Allinge, on Bornholm. His family moved to Copenhagen and beginning in 1890 he studied philology at the University of Copenhagen (Danish with Latin and English as secondary subjects),〔("Vilhelm Grønbech" ), ''Dansk Biografisk Leksikon'', retrieved 10 October 2014 〕 while working at the Royal Library and as a schoolteacher. In 1902 he received his doctorate for a study of the historical phonetics of Turkish, after which he began teaching at the university, first as a dozent and then from 1908 to 1911 as a lecturer in English literature, while also working as a church organist. He published a book of poems and a study of the dialect of Bukhara.〔P. M. Mitchell, ''Vilhelm Grønbech'', Twayne's World Authors Series 397, Boston: Hall-Twayne, 1978, ISBN 9780805763065, Chronology p. 11.〕 In 1909 the first volume of his work on Germanic paganism, ''Vor Folkeætt i Oldtiden'' (English title ''The Culture of the Teutons'') was published, and in 1911 he became a docent in the history of religion. After the appearance of the remaining three volumes of ''Vor Folkeætt i Oldtiden'' in 1912 and of a related essay, "Religionsskiftet i Norden" on the conversion of Scandinavia (1913), the University of Leipzig sought in 1914 to award him a professorship and in 1915 he was appointed professor of the history of religion at Copenhagen, a position which he held until 1943.〔("Vilhelm Grønbech" ), ''Den Store Danske'', retrieved 8 October 2014 〕〔 Early in his career he also taught at the state college of education and from 1918 to 1920 headed the Danish Society for Psychic Research.〔 During the German occupation of Denmark in World War II, Grønbech's lectures drew large audiences, and after the war he founded the periodical ''Frie Ord'' with the theologian Hal Koch. It ran from 1946 to 1948, with Grønbech the primary contributor, and was rapidly successful, with 6,000 subscribers within a few months of its founding.〔Mitchell, pp. 129–30.〕 Several of his articles published there were republished in posthumous collections; a 1943 lecture series at Borup's College in Copenhagen was published from shorthand transcriptions as ''Lyset fra Akropolis'' (The Light from the Acropolis, 1950).〔Mitchell, pp. 115, 141.〕 In the year of his retirement, Allinge awarded him honorary citizenship and the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters awarded him a free residence at Lundehave in Helsingør; he died in Helsingør in 1948.〔 Grønbech was married twice, in 1900 to Pauline Ramm, who died in 1946, and in August 1947 to Honorine Louise Hermelin, rector of the Swedish folk high school for women at Fogelstad in Sweden. His son Kaare Grønbech, born in 1901, was a specialist in Asian languages.〔 Grønbech ordered his papers destroyed,〔Mitchell, p. 143.〕 but the Royal Library has a large archive.〔〔Brigitte Larsen, ("Grønbech i understrømmen" ), ''Kristeligt Dagblad'', 24 April 2002 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vilhelm Grønbech」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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