Introduction

Biography

Grundtvig earned his theo­lo­gy de­gree from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Co­pen­ha­gen, but was not des­tined for the life of a pas­tor.

He was or­dained in 1811, but the out­cry from two ear­ly, con­tro­ver­si­al ser­mons made him aban­don the pul­pit in fa­vor of a chap­lain­cy at a wo­men’s home. How­ev­er, he wrote pro­fuse­ly, pro­duc­ing works on Norse my­tho­lo­gy and ov­er 1,000 hymns.

Grundtvig be­came a bi­shop in 1861, but ne­ver re­ceived a dio­cese.