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HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)

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HALL, CARL See also:CHRISTIAN (1812–1888) , Danish statesman, son of the highly respected See also:artisan and See also:train-See also:band See also:colonel Marls Hall, was See also:born at Christianshavn on the 25th of See also:February 1812. After a distinguished career at school and See also:college, he adopted the See also:law as his profession, and in 1837 married the highly gifted but See also:eccentric See also:Augusta See also:Marie, daughter of the philologist See also:Peter Oluf See also:Brondsted. A natural conservatism indisposed Hall at first to take any See also:part in the popular See also:movement of 1848, to which almost all his See also:friends had already adhered; but the moment he was convinced of the inevitability of popular See also:government, he resolutely and sympathetically followed in the new paths. Sent to the Rigsforsamling of 1848 as member for the first See also:district of See also:Copenhagen, a See also:constituency he continued to represent in the Folketing till 1881, he. immediately took his See also:place in the front See also:rank of Danish politicians. From the first he displayed rare ability as a debater, his inspiring and yet amiable See also:personality attracted hosts of admirers, while his extraordinary tact and See also:temper disarmed opposition and enabled him to mediate between extremes without ever sacrificing principles. Hall was not altogether satisfied with the fundamental law of See also:June; but he considered it expedient to make the best use possible of the existing constitution and to unite the best conservative elements of the nation in its See also:defence. The aloofness and sulkiness of the aristocrats and landed proprietors he deeply deplored. Failing to rally them to the See also:good cause he determined anyhow to organize the See also:great cultivated See also:middle class into a .See also:political party. Hence the " June See also:Union," whose See also:pro-gramme was progress and reform in the spirit of the constitution,; and at the same See also:time opposition to the one-sided democratism and party-tyranny of the Bondevenner or See also:peasant party. The " Union " exercised an essential See also:influence on the elections of 1852, and was, in fact, the beginning of the See also:national Liberal party, which found its natural See also:leader in Hall. During the years 1852–1854 the burning question of the See also:day was the connexion between the various parts of the See also:monarchy. Hall was " See also:eider- See also:equilibrium at the very outset incited sympathy, while his wit and See also:humour made him the centre of every circle within which he moved.

See Vilhelm Christian See also:

Sigurd Topsoe, Polit. Portraetstudier (Copenhagen, 1878) ; Scholler Parelius Vilhelm Birkedal, Personlige O levelser (Copenhagen, 189o-1891). (R. N. B.

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