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Metadata
Object Identification Number |
1989.098.070 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Donor |
Dinesen, Hans P. |
Description |
Black and white wedding photograph of a couple on a gray paperboard mat. The man is on the viewer's left and is seated on the arm of the woman's chair. He is wearing a dark suit with a light colored shirt and tie. To the viewer's right is a seated woman wearing a light colored dress and veil. She has flowers/leaves in hair and around her neck. She is also holding a bouqet of flowers on her lap. There appears to be a cuartian in the background at the viewer's right. The back of the mat has handwritten text: "Dixen" (top left corner) and "Bryllup 26 Juli / 1905". |
Print Size |
5 7/8" x 7 7/8" |
Creation Date |
July 26, 1905 |
Associated People |
Dixen, Jens |
Search Terms |
Dixen, Jens Wedding Bride Groom |
Date Received by Museum |
07/28/1989 |
Provenance |
The couple in this wedding photograph remain unidentified but are likely connected to Jens Dixen (Danish immigrant, preacher, missionary, and teacher). Jens Dixen was born in Southern Jylland (Jutland) at Roibol, Denmark on April 5, 1858, and immigrated to Latimer, Iowa in 1880 or 1881. He settled in Franklin County, Iowa in 1880 or 1881, and converted to Lutheranism in Dows, Iowa in the summer of 1884. He worked through the summers as a tiling contractor, and on the weekends he would preach. During the winter when tiling was not possible, he would make more extended trips all over the U.S. Dixen also taught such topics as Catechism, Bible History, and Mission History to young boys, helping to train them to become preachers and missionaries. Before returning to Denmark for a final time in 1929, he had visited and performed missionary work in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Africa, and India. Dixen attended Elk Horn College (in Elk Horn, IA) for a period, probably during the 1880s. He returned as a featured speaker to the College's 50th anniversary celebration in 1928. Jens Dixen founded the Brorson Folk High School in North Dakota. The school was established in 1901, and a building was built in 1905. It was named after Danish bishop Hans Adolph Brorson (1694-1764), well known for his hymns. Brorson Folk High School was allied with the United Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church. Dixen served as principal for seven years. He left his home near Coulter, Iowa in 1902 and settled in Kenmare, North Dakota, where he lived in the one-room house now on the grounds of the Museum of Danish America (located in Elk Horn, IA). In 1910, he married Christine Kruger from Denmark. A note in the file suggests he had an adopted son Marius Dixen. Jens Dixen finished his life in Denmark with his wife Christine, and died in 1931. According to a note in the accession file from Rolf Buschardt Christensen, Brorson Højskole (High School) was established in the home of Pastor Hans Hansen in 1901. In 1905, a large school building with classroom and dormitories for forty students was erected about five miles north of Kenmare. Brorson Folk High School was named after Bishop Hans Adolf Brorson (1694-1764). The high school was allied with the pietistic United Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church. No less than 25 young men became pastors or missionaries because of their time at Brorson. Jens Dixen helped establish the school. He was there from 1903-1907 and 1910-1915. He was principal for seven years. The note has additional information about principals as well as other sources with information on the school. |
Images |
016\1989098070.JPG |
Accession number |
1989.098 |