Ambivalent patriotism: Jacob Aall and Dano‐Norwegian identity before 1814
Ambivalent patriotism: Jacob Aall and Dano‐Norwegian identity before 1814
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矛盾的爱国主义:雅各布·阿尔和 1814 年之前的达诺-挪威身份
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2004
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Jens Johan Hyvik
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J. Burgess;Jens Johan Hyvik
ABSTRACT. Like many Norwegian elite, Jacob Aall (1773–1844) lived between twonational identities – Norwegian and Danish. On the one hand, he was a subject of theDanish crown, educated in Denmark in the refinements of European knowledge andhigh culture; on the other he was a loyal provincial son of Norway, engaged in buildingthe political and economic autonomy of his homeland. This article examines the twosides of national identity in Jacob Aall’s life and work by focusing on the evolution inhis understanding ofthe concept ofthe Norwegian nation. Itargues that thepatriotismcentral to Aall’s understanding of modernity and the coming-to-age of Norwaycontains two disparate, but equally necessary sides. The one is characterised by anabiding sentiment of national romantic cultural belonging, the other is a learnedcommitment to the Enlightenment utilitarian principles that gave force to theNorwegian national movement. IntroductionFrom the early High Middle Ages until the end of the fourteenth century,when it entered into a political union with Denmark and Sweden, Norwaywas an independent political unit. By the sixteenth century Norway hadbecome a province of the Danish kingdom, politically, economically andculturally subordinated to Denmark. Its written language receded, replacedby Danish as the language of culture, education, wealth and power. However,like elsewhere in Europe in the late eighteenth century a process of culturaland political awakening tookhold in Norway, accompanied by the formation,among Norwegian elites, of a distinct national identity. This process acceler-ated after Denmark-Norway’s involvement in the Napoleonic wars in 1807,and was an important background for the formation of an autonomous statein 1814, and the adoption of a Norwegian constitution the same year. Amongthe instrumental Norwegians to take part in these political transformationswas Jacob Aall.Jacob Aall was born in Porsgrunn, Norway in 1773, the son of a localmerchant, and member of a prominent and well-to-do family. Aall was gifted