| Revision as of 20:23, 14 December 2011 editReedy Bot (talk | contribs)Bots128,293 editsm Tagging for AFT v5← Previous edit | Revision as of 11:31, 19 November 2012 edit undoVIAFbot (talk | contribs)Bots254,678 editsm Added the {{Authority control}} template with VIAF number 89187340: http://viaf.org/viaf/89187340 . Please report any errors.Next edit → | ||
| Line 12: | Line 12: | ||
| * Seland, J.: ''Macody Lund. Et hjerte i en kruttønne.'', 1971 (''in Norwegian''). | * Seland, J.: ''Macody Lund. Et hjerte i en kruttønne.'', 1971 (''in Norwegian''). | ||
| {{Authority control|VIAF=89187340}} | |||
| {{Persondata | {{Persondata | ||
| |name = Lund, Frederik Macody | |name = Lund, Frederik Macody | ||
Revision as of 11:31, 19 November 2012
 | This article includes a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. Please help improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (April 2011) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
Julius Frederik Macody Lund (born 18 November 1863 in Stavanger, died 16 December 1943 in Farsund) was a controversial Norwegian historian, most known and remembered for his engagement in the restoration of Nidaros Cathedral.
When architect Christian Christie presented his ideas for a restoration of the west section and the west front, an alternative idea was published by Macody Lund, introducing the screenfront and the rose window. Both of these ideas were included in Olaf Nordhagen's 1907 plan for the restoration of the cathedral.
In 1915 Macody Lund published his theory that Nidaros Cathedral was constructed on the basis of the ideas of the golden ratio. He gained support for this idea in the Parliament of Norway, and received financial aid from the parliament to develop an alternative proposal for the restoration of the west section and the west front, in competition with Nordhagen's work. These "system controversies" led to great delays in the work at the cathedral, as no work could be done before this dispute was settled. Macody Lund published his views in Ad Quadratum (1919). The dispute was settled in 1922, when an international experts commission rejected Macody Lund's theories. In 1923, Stortinget decided to continue the cathedral's restoration based on Nordhagen's plan. The commission's verdict was, however, without a full argumentation. Macody Lund thus saw an opportunity to continue his argument, which he published in Ad Quadratum II: Dom med præmisser over den internasjonale domskommissions dom uten præmisser (1928) ("A verdict with premises on the international experts commission's verdict without premises").
He was given a Lifetime government grant in 1929.
References
- Seland, J.: Macody Lund. Et hjerte i en kruttønne., 1971 (in Norwegian).