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4 unusual facts about Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae


Jacob Kornerup

His acquaintance with the archeologist Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae encouraged him to become involved in the restoration of historical buildings in collaboration with the National Museum, leading to hundreds of drawings and watercolors which are now in the museum's archives.

Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae

In 1835 whilst at school in Randers Worsaae was invited to participate in an excavation of a grave at Bygholm, outside Horsens.

As director of the National Museum of Denmark (1865-1874), Worsaae became the mentor of a new generation of archaeologists: including Sophus Müller in Denmark.

In the mid-19th century, amid Danish-German political tension, the Norwegian scholar and nationalist Peter Andreas Munch provided the Germans with arguments for invading Denmark by suggesting that Denmark had originally been settled by Germans.



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