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by the Board for twelve months at a time. The President of the
Institute since its foundation is Dr. P. Munch, Member of Parlia-
ment and former Minister of Foreign Affairs (1929—1940).
Finances
The activities of the Institute have been made possible thanks
to generous contributions from scientific funds, Danish and for-
eign. Foremost among these patrons stand the Rockefeller Founda-
tion, the Rask-0rsted Foundation and the Carlsberg Foundation.
For the first ten years the grants of the Rockefeller Foundation
were given without specification for the general activities of the
Institute. Since 1937, however, they have been earmarked for
definite tasks, especially the study of international relations. The
Rask-0rsted Foundation is primarily interested in the dissemi-
nation in Denmark of information about foreign countries and
in the corresponding diffusion abroad of reports on Danish con-
ditions. The Carlsberg Foundation, on the other hand, almost
exclusively supports the study of purely Danish history. Other
foundations, like the Otto Monsted and the Laurits Andersen
Foundations, have financed special studies while the two leading
Copenhagen dailies have contributed to the indexing of their own
old files for the benefit of science. The Institute has never received
any cash grants from the State but since 1939 its offices have been
lodged rent free in one of the modern buildings of the State-
supported University of Copenhagen.
Studies in Danish Social History
From the very first the Board of the Institute made up a
comprehensive program for the study of various aspects of Danish
social history in the second half of the i9th Century. During the
past sixteen years most of this program has been carried through.
The studies were undertaken partly by economists, partly by
historians.
The central problem of all social conditions being the relation-
ship between the incomes and the cost-of-living of the workers,
it was fitting that the first result of the Institute’s studies in the
field of social history should be a book by Jorgen Pedersen on
wages and retail prices in Denmark under the fluctuations in