Carl Nicolai Starcke

Carl Nicolai Starcke (29 March 1858, Copenhagen – 7 March 1926, Copenhagen) was a Danish sociologist, politician, educator and philosopher. He is buried at Holmens Cemetery. 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 Feuerbach. In 1916 he was against the resistance of Harald Høffding, a professor of philosophy at the University of Copenhagen. 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.

Work

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.

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.