Frederik (Ludvig) Konow Lund

(b Bergen, 20 Oct 1889; d Bergen, 30 Aug 1970). Norwegian architect. He was educated as an architect (1910-14) at the K?nigliche S?chsische Technische Hochschule, Dresden, and then studied in the USA (1916-17). In 1919 he started his own practice in Bergen. His intentions were already evident in the holiday house at God?ysund (1919), where, inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright (whom he had met), he gave a new interpretation to traditional, western Norwegian architectural forms. The building resembled a farmhouse that had been added to over the years: the use of different types of doors and windows contributed to this picturesque and organic effect, and the house was built on many levels. Lund became the major exponent of the 'Bergen school', which, between the wars, developed an approach to house design inspired by the free plans of Wright and of such English architects as Edwin Lutyens. Lund's many houses in Fana and Bergen of the 1920s and 1930s were distinguished by the free composition of volumes, which was adapted to the irregular sites of western Norway, and by their varied and carefully executed detailing. Other characteristics of these houses were their dry-stone walling, such traditional exterior colours as ochre and dark red, and wooden cladding chemically treated to achieve the greyness of naturally weathered wood.

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Troels Frederik Troels-Lund

Troels Frederik Lund (September 5, 1840 - February 12, 1921) was a Danish historian born in Copenhagen.

He entered the University of Copenhagen in 1858. About the age of thirty he took a post which brought before his notice the treasures of the archives of Denmark.

His first important work, Historiske Skitser, did not appear until 1876, but after that time his activity was stupendous. In 1879 was published the first volume of his Danmarks og Norges Historie i Slutningen of det Xvi. Aarhundrede, a history of daily life in Denmark and Norway at the close of the 16th century.

Troels Lund was the pioneer of the remarkable generation of young historians who came forward in northern Europe about 1880, and he remained the most original and conspicuous of them. Saying very little about kings, armies and governments, he concentrates his attention on the life, death, employments, pleasures and prejudices of the ordinary men and women of the age with which he deals using to illustrate his theme a vast body of documents previously neglected by the official historian.

Lund was appointed historiographer-royal to the king of Denmark and Comptroller of the Order of the Dannebrog.

There was probably no living man to whom the destruction of the archives, when Christiansborg Palace was accidentally burned in 1884, was so acute a matter of distress. But his favorite and peculiar province, the manuscripts of the 16th century, was happily not involved in that calamity.

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