Niels Steensgaard, born in Rødovre, Denmark, in 1932. Ph.D. from the University of Copenhagen. Professor of History at the University of Copenhagen.
Guest of the Rector (Fall 1997)
During my stay at NIAS in the fall of 1997 I worked on my contribution to the volume The Rise of the Merchant Empires, ed. James D. Tracy (Cambridge 1990).