Ludvig Kristensen Daa

Ludvig Kristensen Daa (19 August 1809 – 12 June 1877) was a Norwegian historian, ethnologist, auditor, editor of magazines and newspapers, educator and politician.

[1] At the age of thirteen, Daa started at the Bergen Cathedral School and took the examen artium later as a private candidate.

Here he was a leader in the Norwegian Students' Society, and sided with Henrik Wergeland in the dispute with Johan Sebastian Welhaven.

[2] Daa held multiple jobs; he worked as a state auditor from 1839 to 1851, parliamentary archivist from 1841, columnist in Morgenbladet from 1839 to 1847 and Christiania-Posten from 1848 to 1851, and publisher of the magazine Granskeren from 1840 to 1843.

In 1840–1841 he ran afoul with Henrik Wergeland, who wrote the farces Engelsk Salt and Vinægers Fjeldeventyr (both 1841) about Daa.

While waiting for the next election, he issued the periodical Den norske Tilskuer, and also worked at Christiania Cathedral School.

As a professor, in 1868 he managed to denounce Peter Andreas Munch and Rudolf Keyser's theory on immigration to Norway.