Carl Nicolai Starcke (29 March 1858 in

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– 7 March 1926 in Copenhagen) was a Danish sociologist,

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, educator and

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. He is buried at

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. He was the father of Viggo Starcke, another writer and publisher of books such as ''Denmark in World History''.

Life

Starcke graduated in 1883 with a thesis on

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.Den Store Danske
/ref> In 1916 he was against the resistance of Harald Høffding, a professor of philosophy at the

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. His first political party he joined was Venstre, a liberal party. In 1905 he co-founded the social-liberal party

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. He was dissatisfied with the party and therefore started the establishment of Danmarks Retsforbund in 1919. From 1913 to 1916 he was chairman of the Henry George fora ingen.

Education

In 1899 Starcke founded Det Danske Selskabs Skole (), the first free high school in Europe. It closed again in 1911, just 12 years after it was opened.

"The primitive family in its origin and development"

Family sociology

Starcke published a book named ''Die primitive Familie in ihrer Entstehung und Entwickelung'' in 1888. In it, he examined the social structures of different populations in Africa, Asia and Australia, and compared them with each other. Starcke wrote about this book:

Comparative method

Starcke speculation turned against the construction of history and wants it by the application of the comparative method to replace. He is against a misunderstanding of this method: According to Starcke, the comparative method can not be a common origin, but close to the same conditions.

Source criticism

He grappled with the quality of the source material, and explores the question of why authors come from the same sources to different results. Starcke distinguished four categories of sources: *direct historical accounts of the development of a particular community during a certain period *travel stories *written down old laws and customs *ancient myths and legends and archaeological reports He points to the problem circuits to interpolate to periods for which there are no sources.

Works

''Most of these books were written in his native language Danish, but there are French and English translations available for several. Listed chronologically.'' * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Starcke, Carl 1858 births 1926 deaths Politicians from Copenhagen Writers from Copenhagen Venstre (Denmark) politicians Danish Social Liberal Party politicians Danish ethnologists 19th-century Danish philosophers 20th-century Danish philosophers Danish sociologists Danish educational theorists Progressive education Burials at Holmen Cemetery