Benign Structures. The Worldview of Danish National Poet, Pastor, and Politician N.F.S. Grundtvig (1783-1872)

Abstract

This paper presents a study of the central Danish 19th-century figure N.F.S. Grundtvig (1783-1872) and his worldview. More precisely, by way of simple neural word embeddings we seek to plot Grundtvig’s worldview in attempt to tease out factors explaining for his cultural and religious success as a poet. We arrive at the conclusion that one factor for Grundtvig’s relative success could be found in his explicitly positive worldview fit for modern conditions.