Laust Jevsen Moltesen was a Danish

Denmark

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 educated church historian and Venstre

Venstre (Denmark)

VenstreThe party name is officially not translated into any other language, but is in English often referred to as the Liberal Party. Similar rules apply for the name of the party's youth wing Venstres Ungdom. , full name Venstre, Danmarks Liberale Parti , is the largest political party in Denmark...

politician

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. He served as Foreign Minister of Denmark

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 from 1926 to 1929.

Biography

He was born in Rodhede in Northern Schleswig. Educated in theology

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 at the University of Copenhagen

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, he made large contributions as a church historian, and supported the thoughts of N.F.S. Grundtvig. After studies in Hamburg

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 and the Netherlands

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, he published a biography of Frederik Brekling in 1890. As a result of studies in Rome

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 in 1894 and 1895, he wrote De Avignonske Pavers Forhold til Danmark (1896), for which he obtained the doctorate. He also wrote Det kristne Munkevæsen, dets Oprindelse og første Udvikling (1901) and Acta Pontificum Danica, 1316-78 volume I, (1904).

In 1909, Moltesen was elected in Vinderup

Vinderup

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 to the Danish Folketing

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parliament for Venstre. He left the political life in 1918, but re-entered the Folketing in 1920, elected in Holstebro

Holstebro

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. After World War I

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, he served as the Danish delegate at the League of Nations

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. From 1926 to 1929, he served as Foreign Minister of Denmark

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, in the Venstre cabinet of Thomas Madsen-Mygdal

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal was Prime Minister of Denmark from 14 December 1926 to 30 April 1929, as leader of a Liberal Party government...

. Venstre lost the 1929 election, and Moltesen was replaced by Peter Rochegune Munch

Peter Rochegune Munch

Peter Rochegune Munch was a leading Danish historian and politician. He was a leading member of the Radikale Venstre, and represented Langeland in parliament....

as Foreign Minister. Moltesen continued as a Folketing member, and was the head of the parliamentary Council on Foreign Affairs until 1932, when he resigned due to disagreement with the military policies of the government.