Aage Friis
Aage Friis was a Danish historian and university lecturer.Life
Friis completed his studies in 1896 with a master's degree in history. He was a member of the university library at the University of Copenhagen from 1891 to 1900, during which he graduated with a doctorate in 1899 with a dissertation on Andreas Peter Bernstorff and Ove Høegh-Guldberg. In 1913, he became the history professor at the University of Copenhagen, where he remained until his retirement in 1935. He was rector of the university in 1932/1933. In 1919 he was one of the co-founders of the Foreningen Norden.
Friis was concerned with Danish history in its relations with Germany. Here, the Bernstorff family presented one of its main themes in the history of the early modern period; his two-volume work The Bernstorffs and Denmark were also translated into German. He also appeared as a Danish biographer of the young Bismarck before his reign in Denmark. Before and after the First World War, he became a member of the Danish Social Liberal Party, partly as an employee of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the Southern Jutland issue, which resulted in Nordschleswig being Danish again after the war as a result of the Schleswig plebiscites of 1920. He was friends with the German historian Friedrich Meinecke. He was buried at Solbjerg Parkkirkegård in Frederiksberg.Honors
