[1] He then studied Nordic filology at the University of Copenhagen but dropped out after a few years and became a private teacher, first on Bornholm and then in 1894–96 at Brødebækgård under Gisselfeld and in 1896–97 in Lorup near Sorø.

He worked as a photographer both for the National Museum of Denmark and the Association for the Preservation of Historic Buildings.

In 1919, Hude was awarded an annual sum of DKK 900 from the Danish state in return for leaving his glass negatives to the National Museum of Denmark.

[1] Hude's photographs were used in H. Weitemeyer's third edition of Traps Danmark, Troels-Lund's Dagligt Liv i Norden, Edwin Redslob's Alt Danemar (Munic, 1914; later published in Danish by Francis Beckett and Chr.

Axel Jensen as Gammel dansk Kunst) as well as in numerous school books.