Niklas Thode Jensen

Niklas Thode Jensen
Danish National Archives · Dept. of Aquisition and Preservation

PhD

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August 2018 - present
Danish National Archives
Danish National Archives
Position
  • Senior Researcher
August 2015 - December 2017
Danish National Archives
Danish National Archives
Position
  • Archivist
September 2011 - July 2015
University of Copenhagen
Position
  • Temporary Lecturer

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Publications (32)
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English title: “The Smoke Nuisance” or “The Insidious Death”: Air Pollution and Health in Copenhagen, c. 1920–2020 The perception and handling of air pollution in Copenhagen between c. 1920–2020 changed significantly through four phases. During the first phase, c. 1920–1952, air pollution was regarded as little more than an annoying part of life in...
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[For English summary see: https://tidsskrift.dk/historisktidsskrift/article/view/127106 ] Sygdom og død som følge af luftforurening er stadig et problem i Danmark, skønt langt mindre end tidligere. Men hvor stort var problemet før forbedringerne? Hvilken rolle spillede luftforureningen for sundheden under Københavns industrialisering i 1800-tallet...
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This chapter deals with the writing of the history of the colony of Tranquebar and the Danish East Indies carried out by Henning Munch Engelhart (1757-1791).
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This chapter deals with the work of Henning Munch Engelhart (1757-1791) as royal astronomer and scientist in the Danish East Indies during the years c. 1787-1791.
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The chapter deals with Henning Munch Engelhart's (1757-1791) perception of cultures and ethnicities in the East Indies, especially the Danish colony of Tranquebar in India.
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Historien om de dansk-norske kolonier og handelsaktiviteter i Asien har længe været genstand for både forskningens og offentlighedens interesse. Gennem de sidste to årtier har interessen været stigende og bevæget sig fra det traditionelle fokus på europæisk handel og politik i retning af sociale og kulturelle aspekter af livet i kolonierne. Det har...
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I 2020 er det 400 år siden, at den første dansk-norske koloni, Tranquebar, blev grundlagt på Coromandelkysten i det sydøstlige Indien. Efter international målestok var kolonien af mindre betydning, og det samme gjaldt de kommercielle og militære sider af Danmarks koloniale aktiviteter i Asien. Men nyere forskning har bl.a. afsløret, at Tranquebar i...
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This paper explores the role of science in the protestant Danish- and English-Halle Mission in South India in the eighteenth century, c. 1706–1813. During this period, science, broadly construed and including natural history, was employed as a sort of intercultural translating medium for and in the mission. However, the way this medium was utilized...
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Tranquebar var den første dansk-norske handelskoloni i Indien. Der lå mange europæiske kolonier på subkontinentet i 16- og 1700-tallet, men Tranquebar adskilte sig ved at være hovedkvarteret for den multinationale pietistiske Halle-mission. I løbet af 1700-tallet udviklede missionen sig til et regionalt knudepunkt for indsamling, organisering og ud...
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This is a book review of Esther Fihl, ed., The Governor's Residence in Tranquebar: The House and the Daily Life of Its People, 1770-1845 (Copenhagen, Museum Tusculanum Press 2017) .
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Linnaean natural history relied to a large extent on the exchange of information and specimens from colonized areas around the world. This chapter investigates how Linnaean natural history was practiced, structured and exchanged by one of Linnaeus’s travelling students in the colonial field of South and South East Asia in the second half of the eig...
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Vestindien – St. Croix, St. Thomas og St. Jan fortæller historien om de tre øer, som udviklede sig vidt forskelligt, men havde slaveriet tilfælles. Slaveriet blev ophævet i 1848, men øernes sorte befolkning forblev dybt forarmet. Samtidig mistede Dansk Vestindien sin økonomiske betydning for Danmark. Efter flere tilløb blev øerne og deres befolknin...
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This introduction to the special issue ‘Slavery, Servitude and Freedom in the Danish-Norwegian West Indies, 1672–1848’, edited by Niklas Thode Jensen and Vibe Maria Martens, situates the five essays in the issue in the framework provided by previous research. It begins with a historiographical overview of research carried out since c. 1950 concerni...
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The Danish-Norwegian colony of Tranquebar in south-east India is a little explored case of science and ‘patriotic enlightenment’ in the colonial world of the 18th and early 19th centuries. In the period 1768–1813, Tranquebar emerged as a local south Indian hub of science and improvement. The symbol of this development was the establishment of the T...
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With the abolition of the Danish slave trade in the early years of the nineteenth century, slave health became a central concern in the Danish West Indies as plantation owners and colonial administrators were no longer able to replenish an enslaved population decimated by high mortality rates with new imports from Africa. On this background, Niklas...
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The essays collected in Cultivating the Colonies demonstrate how the relationship between colonial power and nature reveals the nature of power. Each essay explores how colonial governments translated ideas about the management of exotic nature and foreign people into practice, and how they literally "got their hands dirty" in the business of empir...
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During the first half of the nineteenth century, a unique system of vaccination against smallpox was developed in the island of St. Croix in the Danish West Indies. The primary intention was to protect the population of enslaved workers, which was of fundamental importance to the economy of the colony. However, because the Danish abolition of the s...
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I perioden 1803-1848 udvikledes et unikt vaccinationssystem på øen St. Croix i Dansk Vestindien. Intentionen var primært at beskytte slavebefolkningen, som var uund-værlig for sukkerproduktionen og dermed af afgørende betydning for koloniens øko-nomi, men som også havde en negativ befolkningsudvikling og ikke længere kunne suppleres ved import af n...
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This study was carried out as part of the project "Voices from Beyond the Grave. Excavation and anthropological examinations of skeletons of enslaved African-Caribbeans in St. Croix, US Virgin Islands and compared with historical records." The project was a part of and funded by the scientific Danish Galathea 3 Expedition (August 2006 – April 2007)...
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