Carl Nicolai Starcke


Carl Nicolai Starcke was a Danish sociologist, politician, educator and philosopher. He is buried at Holmens Cemetery. He was the father of Viggo Starcke, another writer and publisher of books such as Denmark in World History.

Life

Starcke graduated in 1883 with a thesis on Feuerbach. In 1916 he was against the resistance of Harald Høffding, a professor of philosophy at the University of Copenhagen. His first political party he joined was Venstre, a liberal party. In 1905 he co-founded the social-liberal party Venstre Det radicals. He was dissatisfied with the party and therefore started the establishment of Danmarks Retsforbund in 1919. From 1913 to 1916 he was chairman of the Henry George fora ingen.

Education

In 1899 Starcke founded Det Danske Selskabs Skole, the first free high school in Europe. It closed again in 1911, just 12 years after it was opened.

"The primitive family in its origin and development"

Family sociology

Starcke published a book named Die primitive Familie in ihrer Entstehung und Entwickelung in 1888. In it, he examined the social structures of different populations in Africa, Asia and Australia, and compared them with each other.
Starcke wrote about this book:

Comparative method

Starcke speculation turned against the construction of history and wants it by the application of the comparative method to replace. He is against a misunderstanding of this method:
According to Starcke, the comparative method can not be a common origin, but close to the same conditions.

Works

Most of these books were written in his native language Danish, but there are French and English translations available for several. Listed chronologically.