Marie Toft

Ane Marie Elise Toft
Marie c. 1845.
Born
Ane Marie Elise Carlsen

(1813-08-04)August 4, 1813
Gammel Køgegård, Køge, Denmark
DiedJuly 9, 1854(1854-07-09) (aged 41)
Copenhagen, Denmark
Burial placeGammel Køgegård
Spouses
Children2
RelativesFranziska Carlsen (sister)

Ane Marie Elise Toft, later Grundtvig, née Carlsen (4 August 1813 – 9 July 1854) was a wealthy Danish landowner who owned and efficiently administered the Rønnebæksholm estate near Næstved which she had inherited from her first husband following a marriage lasting less than two years.[1][2] She opened up Rønnebæksholm to religious revivalists, attracting both clerics and laymen to the estate. In 1851, she married the influential philosopher, N.F.S. Grundtvig, who had visited the estate in 1846. Her manor house subsequently became one of the principal centres of Grundtvigian activity while Grundtvig became deeply devoted to Toft, treating her as his independent and spiritually equal partner.[3]

Rønnebæksholm
  1. ^ Bradley, SAJ (2008). N.F.S. Grundtvig, A Life Recalled: An Anthology of Biographical Source-Texts. Aarhus University Press. pp. 283–. ISBN 978-87-7934-007-7.
  2. ^ "Arvesagen efter Marie Toft" (in Danish). Grundtvigsk Forum. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
  3. ^ Bjørn. "Marie Toft (1813 - 1854)" (in Danish). Kvinfo. Retrieved 9 May 2020.