cultural resources in henrik ibsen's early environment - Ibsen.net

Grini and the former teacher Søren Pedersen Tufte. The first resignations from the state
church in Gjerpen took place on July 2nd 1856, and among these was Søren Tufte,
entered in the church book as # 1. In the course of the year, according to the same source,
the number of the resigned increased to 14, and up to 1860 we find a total of 35 resigned
adults who had joined Lammers' movement. The following therefore appears to be rather
modest, but the numbers do not give a correct picture of the movement's extent, far less of
its significance in the parish. In the first place one part of those most active in the
Lammers congregation is lacking in the catalog of the resigned, among them the 11
members of the Eckstorm family. With their zeal and fervor, Lammers' adherents exerted
an influence which had no relation to their numbers. For that matter, part of those who
were seized by the movement went over to other movements and church assemblies. Not
the least significance the Lammers movement had was as a preparation of the ground for
religious activity in later periods . . . .
Pp. 578 ff. "The school and the teachers."
The pastor (of the Gjerpen parish church) acquired new and significant duties as
the chief administrator of schools and poor relief in the parish. It was initially by efforts
from the pastor's side that these systems were put into effect about 1740, and he had
charge of the continuing activity and the main responsibility for getting necessary
organizational changes accomplished. As far as the school and its instruction were
concerned, he had the duty of supervision, and he was also the one who would approve
aspirants to the teaching profession. A prospective teacher (of an ambulatory school), in
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