Danish Clergy - Danish Lutheran Clergy, Danish Bishops, Danish Imams, Danish Priests, Danish Rabbis, Kaj Munk, Michael Gottlieb Birckner, Magnus (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Danish Lutheran clergy, Danish bishops, Danish imams, Danish priests, Danish rabbis, Kaj Munk, Michael Gottlieb Birckner, Magnus, Duke of Holstein, Steen Steensen Blicher, William of AEbelholt, Ahmad Abu Laban, Daniel Gotthilf Moldenhawer, Ahmed Akkari, Jesper Langballe, Hans Tausen, Soren Krarup, Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, Isaac Noah Mannheimer, Lucas Debes, Michael Melchior, Hans Svane, Friedrich Munter, Anders Sorensen Vedel, Rasmus Jensen, Thorkild Grosboll, Knud Ejler Logstrup, Erik Pontoppidan, Jacob Peter Mynster, Thomas Hansen Kingo, Abdul Wahid Pedersen, Esaias Fleischer, Jorgen Sadolin, Mohamad Al-Khaled Samha, Peter Kierkegaard, Jesper Brochmand, Regin Prenter, Jens Andersen Beldenak, Hans Adolph Brorson, Holger Lissner, Peder Winstrup, Marcus Melchior, Hans Egede Saabye, Bent Melchior, Mostafa Chendid, Leif Kayser, Peter Erasmus Muller, Heinrich Ernst Grosmann, Lise-Lotte Rebel. Excerpt: Michael Gottlieb Birckner (21 August 1756 - 1 December 1798) was a Danish priest and philosopher. Birckner especially explored the subject of Freedom of Speech. The American historian H. Arnold Barton has characterised Birckner, alongside with Niels Ditlev Riegels, as being one of "the most original thinkers" of the radical group of authors in Denmark in this period. The Danish jurist Peter Germer in his book The Nature of Freedom of Speech (Ytringsfrihedens Vaesen, 1973) shows that Birckners ideas was akin to ideas that Scottish-American philosopher Alexander Meiklejohn proposed in his Free Speech and Its Relation to Self-Government (1948). Michael Gottlieb Birckner was born in Copenhagen. At age 3 he lost his mother, Anna Marie (born Wiborg), and half a year later his father, brickmason Johan Michael Birckner, died. The city mortician took in the orphan, and in due time Birckner graduated from the city's Latin school in 177.