Fra Dybbøl til trøbbel. Christopher Bruun som biografisk utfordring

Sammendrag

Christopher Bruun (1839-1920) was one of the main figures within the Folk High School movement in Norway. This article has two main goals: First: to show how this movement has created Bruun both as a hero and as the opposite. Second: To launch an alternative and a much broader approach to the biographical construction of Christopher Bruun. By doing this, the article will deal with two opposite positions: the ideological one, which has promoted one specific picture of Bruun at the expense of other possible perspectives - and the more critical one, which rejected the character that the ideological interpretation had cultivated.