Horats’ Oder ved Axel Juel

Gyldendalske Boghandels smaa digtsamlinger

1933

First thus edition in publisher's original marble paper designed card wrap covers [softback]. 12 mo 5½'' x 4½''. Contains 109 printed pages of Danish text. Axel Juel was the son of Captain Hakon Valdemar Juel (1838-1907) and Nathalia Sophie Christensen (1849-1935). He graduated from the Lyceum (Nørrebro Latin-og real skole) in 1901 and graduated philosophicum from Copenhagen University in 1902. He then studied Latin and French, as well as law, but abandoned studies to try to become an actor. This failed and he was hired as an assistant at the Marine Department in 1905 and became a full-powerful official in 1916. He then became the expedition secretary and archivist in 1919 and was functioning office manager for the Ministry Secretariat 1920 before he became a royal appointment to the post in 1923. This position he held to 1943. He married in 1925 to Cand. phil. Anna Louise Rigmor Blume.