Thomas von Westen (1682-1727) was responsible for a mission concerning the Sámi population in Norway in the early Eighteenth-Century. The mission was initiated by the Danish-Norwegian King Frederik 4th and the Society for Promoting Lutheran Christianity in Copenhagen 1715. von Westen wrote a significant number of documents concerning the mission. These documents comprise instructions, reports, public ...

Isaac Olsen was a Norwegian person who went to Finnmark at the beginning of the 1700s and worked there as teacher and preacher among the Sami population until 1716. He wrote a copybook which is preserved today in the Museum of Cultural History, Norway. Parts of this copybook have been published, but the parts on which this article is based, have not been published previously. Mostly written in ...

Denne artikkelen er i hovedsak en gjennomgang av en kopibok skrevet av Isaac Olsen, som var omreisende lærer i Finnmark i perioden 1703–1716. I tillegg trekkes noen komplementerende dokumenter inn for kronologisk å belyse og drøfte Olsens virke i forkant av den offisielle misjon i Finnmark, som Thomas von Westen ledet. Artikkelens kildegrunnlag er originaldokumenter fra Kulturhistorisk Museum i Oslo ...

In this article I will give an account of the seminaries between 1717 and 1732 in the cathedral city of Trondheim, Norway. Key questions that the article seeks to answer are who initiated and supported these seminars, and also how they were organized and how staff and seminarians were recruited. Seminarium Scholasticum was initiated by the Danish Society for promoting Christian knowledge (Misjonskollegiet) ...