Hans Christian Johansen - Curriculum vitae#

Personal data

Born: June 27th 1935 in Aarhus, Denmark
Married, two children, born 1968 and 1973
Office address: Institute of History and Civilization, SDU- Odense University, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark, phone no. 65 50 21 39, fax no. 65 95 77 66

Education

• MA, economics, University of Aarhus, 1963
• Ph.D., economic history, University of Aarhus, 1968

Employment and Teaching Experience

• Danish Foreign Service 1963-64
• Senior lecturer, economics and economic history, University of Aarhus 1964-70 (taught courses in Danish and international economic history, microeconomics, applied economics, and international economic institutions)
• Professor, economic and social history, Odense University / University of southern Denmark 1970-2003 (taught courses in Danish and international economic and social history, demographic history, historical methods, microeconomics, foreign trade theory, monetary theory, growth and development economics, business economics, and statistics).
• Head of the Department of Statistics and Demography, University of southern Denmark 1997-2000.
• Director of the Danish Center for Demographic Studies at Odense University 1997-2002.
• Visiting fellow, University of Chicago, 1975
• Visiting fellow, University of Oslo, 1977
• Visiting fellow, University of Cambridge, 1980
• Visiting fellow, European University Institute (Florence) 1985
• Visiting fellow, University of Reading, 1991
• Guest lectures at the universities in Copenhagen, Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim, Tromsø, Lund, Uppsala, Umeå, Helsinki, Berlin (FU), Amsterdam, Leiden, Rotterdam, Nijmegen, London (LSE), Exeter, Cambridge, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Glasgow, St. Andrews, European University Institute (Florence), and Chicago (Univ. of Chic.).

Other activities etc.

• Chief editor, The Scandinavian Economic History Review, 1971-78
• Member of the Danish Social Science Research Council, 1976-80
• Member of the Danish UNESCO National Commission, 1978-81
• Member of DANDOK, Danish Committee for Scientific and Technical Information and Documentation, 1987-90
• Member of the High Council of the European University Institute, Florence 1993-99 (President 1995-96)
• Member of the Research Council of the European University Institute, Florence 1994-97
• Member of the board of the Danish Data Archives, 1980-84
• Member of the board of Odense University Press, 1979-2003 (chairman 1982-84)
• Member of the board of the Danish Maritime Museum at Kronborg Castle, 1992-2004.
• Member of the board of the Danish Railway Museum
• Member of the board of the Danish Society for History and Social Economics 1990-1995
• Member of the Danish Royal Academy of Science
• Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science
• Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
• Member of the Academia Europaea
• President of the Scandinavian Society of Economic and Social History 1983-92.
• President of the Danish Association for Economic and Social History 1991-96
• Member of the Executive Committee of the International Economic History Association 1990-2002 (Honourable Treasurer 1994-2002).
• Member of committees for appointing professors in economics, history and economic history at the universities in Copenhagen (4 chairs), Roskilde (3), Odense (6), Aarhus (2), Aalborg, Oslo (2), Bergen (2), Trondheim (3), Lund, Linköping (2), Gothenburg (2), Stockholm (4), Uppsala, Umeå (3) and EUI-Florence (4), and at the Schools of Business Administration in Copenhagen, Aarhus (2), Bergen (2), and Stockholm (2).
• Examiner of dissertations at the universities in Odense (14), Copenhagen (2), Stockholm, Lund, Linköping, Oslo (5), Bergen, Trondheim, Tromsø, Helsinki, Hamburg, and EUI-Florence, and at the School of Business Administration in Bergen (3).
• Advisor in evaluating research centres, research projects and manuscripts for the Social Science Research Council, London, NAVF and Norges Forskningsråd, Oslo, UHÄ, Stockholm, Forskningsrådsnämnden and Högskoleverket, Stockholm, Riksbankens Jubilæumsfond, Stockholm, The Royal Academy of Science, Stockholm, The Research Council for Social Research, Stockholm, the University of Umeå, European Science Foundation, and several foreign publishers. Referee for several international journals.
• Member of editorial committees for publishing the official history of Odense (10 volumes, 1978-88), the history of the Danish manufacturing industry after 1870 (8 volumes, 1988-2005), the history of the Danish Customs Administration (5 volumes, 1987-90), the history of the Danish Post and Telegraph (5 volumes, 1991-93), Danish maritime history (7 volumes, 1997-2001), the history of the Danish railways (3 volumes, 1997), and the history of Danish Taxation (1902-09).

Fields of research and major publications

a. Danish mercantilist policy

• J.G. Büsch's Economic Theory, The Scandinavian Economic History Review, 1966, pp. 18-38.
• Dansk økonomisk politik i årene efter 1784 (Danish Economic Policy after 1784), vol. I: 1784-88 (diss.), 1968, 380 pp., vol. II: 1789-93, 1980, 161 pp.
• Carl August Struensee: Reformer or Traditionalist, The Scandinavian Economic History Review, 1969, pp. 192-98.
• Fixed versus Flexible Exchange Rates - Scandinavian Monetary Experience in the Eighteenth Century, in La moneta nell'economia europea. Secoli XIII-XVIII, Pubblicazioni di Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica, F. Datini, Prato, Serie II, 1975.
• Fire økonomiske lærebogsforfattere (Four Economic Textbooks from about 1800), Danske Økonomer, 1976, pp. 105-23.

b. Historical Demography and Danish Social History 1600ff.

• Befolkningsudviklingen på landet i Danmark omkring år 1800 (Rural Population Development in Denmark about 1800), Historie, 1970, pp. 85-122.
• Some Aspects of Danish Rural Population Structure in 1787, The Scandinavian Economic History Review, 1972, pp. 61-70.
• Historisk demografi (Historical Demography), Fortid og Nutid, 1975, pp. 68-85.
• Befolkningsudvikling og familiestruktur i det 18. århundrede (Population Development and Family Structure in the Eighteenth Century), 1975, 2nd ed. 1976, 211 pp.
• Kilder til dansk befolkningshistorie ca. 1750-1914 (Sources to Danish Population History), 1975, 61 pp.
• The Position of the Old in the Rural Household, The Scandinavian Economic History Review, 1976, pp. 129-42.
• Chance and Change, Social and Economic Studies in Historical Demography in the Baltic Area (ed.), 1978, 294 pp.
• Dansk socialhistorie (Danish social history), vol. IV: 1700-1870, 1979, 333 pp.
• Slave Demography in the Danish West Indian Islands, The Scandinavian Economic History Review, 1981, pp. 1-20.
• The Effect on Fertility of Frequent Absences of the Husband, in J. Dupâquier et al. (eds.): Marriage and Remarriage in Populations of the Past, 1981, pp. 581-89.
• The Reality behind the Demographic Arguments to Abolish the Danish Slave Trade, in D. Eltis and J. Walvin (eds.): The Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1981, pp. 221-30.
• Næring og Bystyre. Odense Bys Historie 1700-1789 (The Social and Economic History of Odense), 1983, 316 pp.
• A Stagnating Danish City in the Eighteenth Century, in J. de Vries (ed.): The Dynamics of Urban Decline, 1986, pp. 274-93.
• Working Class Housing in Odense 1750-1914 (in coop. with P. Boje), The Scandinavian Economic History Review, 1986, pp. 135- 52.
• Growing Old in an Urban Environment, Continuity and Change, 1987, pp. 297-305.
• Folk og produktion på fynske gårde gennem to århundreder (The Demography of the Population on 200 Funen Farms 1700-1900), Historie, 1988, pp. 351-86.
• Den danske fiskerbefolkning i perioden fra ca. 1700 til 1914 (Household structures of Danish Fishermen), in John Rogers (ed.): Kustbygd i förändring, 1989, pp. 11-40.
• Mortality Decline and Rural Household Structure, in Historiens et Populations, Liber Amicorum Etienne Hélin, 1991, pp. 177-86.
• Tre danske kystsamfund i det 19. århundrede (Three Danish coastal communities in the nineteenth century) (in coop. with Per Madsen and Ole Degn), 1993, 201 pp.
• (in coop. with Per Madsen and Ole Degn): Fishing Families in Three Danish Coastal Communities, Journal of Family History, 1993, vol. 18, nr. 4, pp. 357-68.
• Odense, a Danish provincial centre, i Pim Kooij og Piet Pellenberg (eds.): Regional Capitals, Past, present, prospects, Assen, Nederlandene, 1994, s. 165-186.
• Never-married women in town and country in eighteenth-century Denmark, i John Henderson og Richard Wall (eds.): Poor Women and Children in the European Past, Routledge, 1994, pp. 196- 206.
• Danish Population History 1600-1939, University Press of Southern Denmark, 2002, 245 pp.

c. Trade and Shipping between the Baltic and Western Europe in the Eighteenth Century

• Den danske skibsfart i sidste halvdel af det 18. århundrede
• (Danish Shipping in the Eighteenth Century), Erhvervshistorisk Årbog, 1975, pp. 62-89.
• Østersøhandelen og den svensk-russiske krig 1788-90 (Baltic
• Trade and the Swedish-Russian War 1788-90), Erhvervshistorisk Årbog, 1976-77, pp. 35-54.
• The Position of Hull in Anglo-Baltic Trade and Shipping in the 1780s, The Tawney Memorial Lecture, Economic History Society Conference, Hull, 1977.
• Hamburg Shipping in the Baltic 1784-1806, in Festschrift für
• Hermann Kellenbenz, 1978, vol. III, pp. 233-50.
• Østersøområdets forsyning med amerikanske varer i det 18. århundrede (The Supply of the Baltic Area with American Goods in the Eighteenth Century), in Festschrift to Kristof Glamann, 1983, pp. 169-85.
• Shipping and Trade between the Baltic Area and Western Europe 1784-95, 1983, pp. 139+952.
• Ships and Cargoes in the Traffic between the Baltic and Amsterdam in the Late Eighteenth Century, Het Nederlandsch Economisch-Historisch Archief, XVI, 1983, pp. 161-70.
• How to pay for Baltic Products?, in Wolfram Fischer (ed.): The Emergence of a World Economy, 1986, pp. 123-42.
• Demand and Supply Factors in Late Eighteenth Century Grain Trade, in From Dunkirk to Danzig, Festschrift to A. Faber, 1988, pp. 281-98.
• Aabenraaskibes sejlads på Middelhavet omkring år 1800 (Ships from the town of Aabenraa in the Mediterranean about 1800), Sønderjyske Årbøger, 1989, pp. 167-82.
• Danish Shipping Services as a Link between the Mediterranean and the Baltic, 1750-1850, in Lewis R. Fischer and Helge W. Nordvik: Shipping and Trade 1750-1950: Essays in International Maritime Economic History, 1990, pp. 15-24.
• Baltic Timber Exports in The Late Eighteenth Century, in The Baltic as a Trade Road, Provincial Museum of Kymenlaakso, XVI, 1992, pp. 17-35.
• Scandinavian shipping in the late eighteenth century in a European perspective, Economic History Review, XLV, 1992, pp. 479-93.
• Sejlads og handel mellem Norge og Danmark i 1700-tallet (Danish- Norwegian trade and shipping in the eighteenth century), in I det lange løp, 1997, pp. 293-304.

d. Danish Industrialization 1840-1980

• Mekaniseringen af dansk tekstilindustri 1850-1914 (The Mechanization of the Danish Textiles Industry 1850-1914), in coop. with Per Boje, Erhvervshistorisk Årbog, 1981, pp. 52-72.
• The Entrepreneurs in a Danish Provincial Town 1840-1935, paper presented at the seminar "Recent Trends in the Study of Managerial History", 1982, 10 pp.
• Fabrik og bolig. Det industrielle miljø i Odense 1840-1940 (Factories and Worker Dwellings in Odense 1840-1940), in coop. with Per Boje and Anders Monrad Møller, 1983, 363 pp.
• Danmark på de multinationale selskabers landkort før 1914 (Denmark and the Multinationals before 1914), Erhvervshistorisk Årbog, 1986, pp. 269-87.
• Industriens vækst og vilkår 1870-1973 (The History of Danish Manufacturing 1870-1973), 1988, 389 pp.
• Gennem forandring til fremskridt. Aalborg Portlands udvikling 1972-89 (The History of the Danish Cement Industry 1972-89), 1989, 175 pp.
• Altid på vej ...... Albanibryggeriernes historie 1859-1984 (The History of the Albani Breweries 1859-1984), in coop. with Per Boje, 1989, 357 pp.
• Marketing and competition in Danish brewing, i Adding Value, Brands and Marketing in Food and Drink, ed. by Geoffrey Jones and Nicholas J. Morgan, Routledge, pp. 126-138.
• (in coop. with Per Boje): En iværksætter, Historien om Mads Clausen og Danfoss (The history of the Danfoss Ltd.) 1993, 287 pp.
• (in coop. with Anders Monrad Møller): Fonde som fundament for dansk industri (Foundations as owners of Danish manufacturing companies), 2005, 269 pp.

e. Danish Monetary Institutions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

• De private banker under den første verdenskrig (Danish Commercial Banks during World War I), in Festschrift to Tage Kaarsted, 1988, pp. 165-79.
• Om at skrive bankhistorie (An Essay on Writing Banking History), Historisk Tidsskrift, vol. 90, 1990, pp. 167-88.
• Banking and Finance in the Danish Economy, 1870-1914, in Rondo Cameron and V.I. Bovykin (eds.): International Banking 1870-1914, 1991, pp. 159-73.
• En koncern i Udvikling. Alm. Brand 1942-92. (The History of the insurance company Alm. Brand 1942-92), 1992, 288 pp.

f. Transport and communications in Denmark c. 1850ff

• Fra monopol til konkurrence, P&Ts historie efter 1960 (Danish Post and Telegraph History 1960ff), 1993, 373 pp.
• (s.m. Poul Thestrup) Le Danemark, un point nodal du réseau télegraphique international dans les années 1870, Michèle Merger et al. (eds.): Les Réseaux Européens transnationaux XIXe-XXe Siècles, Paris, 1995, s. 120-32.
• Jernbanerne i bilismens skygge, På sporet 1847-1997. Jernbanerne, DSB og samfundet, Bd. III: 1950-1997 (Danish Railway History 1950-1997), Jernbanemuseet, Odense, 1997, 357 s.
• Dansk søfarts historie (The history of the Danish Mercantile Marine) vol. 5-7, 1999-2001.

g. Other

• Den økonomiske og sociale udvikling i Danmark 1864-1901 (The Economic and Social Development in Denmark 1864-1901), 1962, 214 pp.
• Udenrigshandel og Betalingsbalance (Foreign Trade and the Balance of Payments), 4 editions, 1970-80, 90 pp.
• Krise i Danmark. Strukturændringer og krisepolitik i 1930'erne (Crisis in Denmark in the 1930s), in coop. with Vagn Dybdahl, Ole Hyldtoft and E. Helmer Pedersen, 1975, 208 pp.
• Videregående statistik for historikere (Statistics for Historians), 1976, 39 pp.
• Dansk Historisk Statistik 1814-1980 (Danish Historical Statistics 1814-1980, table headings in English), 1985, 452 pp.
• The Danish Economy in the Twentieth Century, The Croom Helm
• Series on the Contemporary Economic History of Europe, ed. by Derek Aldcroft, 1987, 221 pp.
• Indledende erhvervsøkonomi. Optimering (Textbook in Business
• Economics, Optimization), 1988, 78 pp.
• Historien i tal. Danmarkshistorien bind 16 (Danish history in figures and graphs from stone age to 1992), 1991, 167 pp.
• The Danish Economy at the Crossroads Between Scandinavia and Europe, Scandinavian Journal of History, 1993, p. 37-56.
• Danish Export Performance 1954-1973, i Entrepreneurship and the transformation of the economy, Leuven University Press, 1994, pp. 653-64. Indkomstskatter og offentlig vækst 1903-2005 (Danish direct taxation 1903-2005), Copenhagen, 2007.