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The Friday bar is a modern invention, but capping off a busy week of studies by getting hammered is by no means a new concept, according to associate professor of the history of science and universities at The Saxo Institute, Morten Fink-Jensen.<\/p>\n

\u00bbBack when the university was founded in 1479 and during the Reformation students were prohibited from drinking. Obviously, the administration admonished students for drinking, because experience had taught them that it was necessary,\u00ab he says.<\/p>\n

Morten Fink-Jensen has agreed to guide us through the sordid history of partying at the University of Copenhagen, and as it turns out drinking habits of Renaissance era academics was anything but well-mannered.<\/p>\n

The Saturday bar is open for business!<\/h2>\n

The University of Copenhagen was founded at a point in history when drunkenly staggering about in the streets of the city was not frowned upon.<\/p>\n

\u00bbUp until the 1700s, drinking was normal across the stratum of society,\u00ab says Morten Fink-Jensen. \u00bbBecause it was healthier to drink than the water, beer was the main constituent of the daily diet. Even the king and the nobility, who enjoyed an elevated position in society, would frequent taverns and were often seen drunk in public.\u00ab<\/p>\n

When students had an argument or a fight, they would take it outside in the street and duel armed with rapiers.<\/p>\n

Morten Fink-Jensen<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The same thing goes for students at the university. On Saturdays, when the last lecture of the week had concluded, students set off to the nearest watering hole in Copenhagen\u2019s Latin Quarter. There were plenty of taverns in the area around Regensen<\/secret>: Simons K\u00e6lder on Gammel Torv, Rosen on Gl. Strand, as well as Dyrk\u00f8b, a more distinguished establishment which left such a permanent mark on the city as the street that housed it would eventually be named after it. We know the names of these taverns, because they appear in official records of the time. Students would name them when being questioned by the police.<\/p>\n

\u00bbPolice records typically tell the same tale. A group of students have been drinking and fighting, and occasionally things really went awry. There are two examples of students getting in a fight over the outcome of a game of cards or dice and one student subsequently stabbing the other to death,\u00ab says Morten Fink-Jensen.<\/p>\n

In the 1500s and 1600s most students carried knives with them. Things did not improve when students eventually switched out their knives for rapiers:<\/p>\n

\u00bbIt led to a lot of duelling. When students had an argument or a fight, they would take it outside in the street and duel armed with rapiers. This was strictly forbidden and the punishment was severe, but it did not deter people from the practice.\u00ab<\/p>\n

Roaming gangs of students<\/h2>\n

Far from every student was a drinker (and a fighter), but even so the average University of Copenhagen student of the 1600s differed greatly from the notion of the highbrow academic we have today.<\/p>\n

\u00bbIn the 1600s, many students at the university were sons of farmers. They did not come from academic homes, they gambled and sang risqu\u00e9 songs in taverns. They roamed the streets in packs and picked fights with sailors, court servants and butcher\u2019s apprentices. They were kind of like gangs fighting over turf.\u00ab<\/p>\n

The university administration, to some extent, turned a blind eye to student excesses. And attempt was made to combat the problem by prohibiting taverns from extending students credit. This was, however, to no avail:<\/p>\n

\u00bbThe proprietor of a tavern knew that if he refused to serve students, they would just go across the street to his competitor who was willing to extend them credit.\u00ab<\/p>\n

From heavy drinkers to hard-line teetotallers<\/h2>\n

It took a major change in society for students to tone down their alcohol consumption. In the early 1700s the European Pietism movement hit Denmark.<\/p>\n

\u00bbCertain types of social behaviour were now frowned upon. King Christian VI, who was himself a devout Pietist, banned theatres. The development had major ramifications for the students and the ideals of the professors.\u00ab<\/p>\n

They roamed the streets in packs and picked fights with sailors, court servants and butcher\u2019s apprentices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Up until this point, the university had its own dungeon where unruly and drunken students were sent to cool off.<\/p>\n

\u00bbThe dungeon was closed down due in part to a decrease in offences, but also because it was believed that a dungeon had no place in a university. The notion of the university as a bastion of learning became prevalent\u2014among the students as well as the administration. The students now considered themselves part of an academic society far removed from the masses.\u00ab<\/p>\n

Philosophers and poets of the tavern<\/h2>\n

Pietism fell out of favour after the 1750s and in the 1800s, students once again took to drinking in taverns. A new entertainment district sprung up in All\u00e9gade on Frederiksberg, where among others the famous Danish poet Oehlenschl\u00e4ger frequented H\u00e5bet which today houses the TV channel TV 2’s regional outlet in Copenhagen, Lorry. But things had changed since the hay day of binge drinking in the 1600s. Most students now came from middle class homes and they brought a new sense of etiquette with them from the university into the taverns:<\/p>\n

\u00bbBinge drinking and risqu\u00e9 songs were dropped in favour of lofty philosophical debates. During the Danish Golden Age students drank wine and recited poetry,\u00ab says Mortin Fink-Jensen.<\/p>\n

Student unions and fraternities were established, where students would discuss art and culture while smoking their pipes. The development continued well into the following century until a major demographical shift changed everything. The age of the masses\u2014and with them the Friday bar\u2014was rapidly approaching.<\/p>\n

Moderate drinking and the modern university<\/h2>\n

Throughout the 1900s, the university of Copenhagen grew steadily. In the 1960s the university experience rapid growth:<\/p>\n

\u00bbMany new students did not come from academic homes, so they had no expectations or notion of the dominant culture at the university. They came from a social background where going out drinking on Fridays and Saturdays was more common than it was among their peers who had grown up in academic homes,\u00ab says Morten Fink-Jensen.<\/p>\n

At the same time, the university went through a process of fragmentation. Faculties moved out of the inner city. Student social life no longer revolved around the centrally located student unions. The new generation of students were eager to form new social relations and a sense of community spirit at the individual faculties scattered around Copenhagen. Thus the Friday bar was invented.<\/p>\n

Ever since, students have been drinking at Friday bar events without being expected to recite bombastic verses of poetry.<\/p>\n

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Read more:<\/strong> The great University of Copenhagen Friday bar guide<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u00bbIn some ways, students of today resemble their peers of the 1600s,\u00ab says Morten Fink-Jensen.<\/p>\n

He does, however, stress that not all students party to cope with the travails of student life\u2014this has always been the case. And according to Morten Fink-Jensen the current generation of students appear to be more moderate in their alcohol consumption than previous generations:<\/p>\n

\u00bbThere\u2019s been a significant shift in perception over the course of the last decade\u2014within the university administration as well as among the student body. Alcohol and drinking games are not as important to students as they used to be. Today, there are other ways to connect and create a sense of community.<\/p>\n

(This story was originally published in Danish on 25 August 2015).<\/em>
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Take a trip down memory lane to a time when drunken, knife-wielding students wreaked havoc in the streets of Copenhagen and find out how today\u2019s Friday bar crowd compares to the rowdy revelers of yore.","use_post_excerpt":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"Byline","is_author":false,"contributors":[{"use_registered_user":true,"user":{"ID":4,"user_firstname":"Dennis","user_lastname":"Christiansen","nickname":"dennis","user_nicename":"dennis","display_name":"Dennis Christiansen","user_email":"dennis.christiansen@adm.ku.dk","user_url":"","user_registered":"2016-12-14 10:09:20","user_description":"","user_avatar":"<img alt='' src='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cbe6a261c2fd3937a6797b96d1b961c6d920de682eae83eac893c61e80a92a39?s=96&d=identicon&r=g' srcset='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cbe6a261c2fd3937a6797b96d1b961c6d920de682eae83eac893c61e80a92a39?s=192&d=identicon&r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-96 photo' height='96' width='96' loading='lazy' decoding='async'\/>"},"contributor_name":"Dennis Christiansen","contributor_title":"\u00a0","contributor_image":false}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<p>The Friday bar is a modern invention, but capping off a busy week of studies by getting hammered is by no means a new concept, according to associate professor of the history of science and universities at The Saxo Institute, Morten Fink-Jensen.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbBack when the university was founded in 1479 and during the Reformation students were prohibited from drinking. Obviously, the administration admonished students for drinking, because experience had taught them that it was necessary,\u00ab he says.<\/p>\n<p>Morten Fink-Jensen has agreed to guide us through the sordid history of partying at the University of Copenhagen, and as it turns out drinking habits of Renaissance era academics was anything but well-mannered.<\/p>\n<h2>The Saturday bar is open for business!<\/h2>\n<p>The University of Copenhagen was founded at a point in history when drunkenly staggering about in the streets of the city was not frowned upon.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbUp until the 1700s, drinking was normal across the stratum of society,\u00ab says Morten Fink-Jensen. \u00bbBecause it was healthier to drink than the water, beer was the main constituent of the daily diet. Even the king and the nobility, who enjoyed an elevated position in society, would frequent taverns and were often seen drunk in public.\u00ab<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When students had an argument or a fight, they would take it outside in the street and duel armed with rapiers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"quotee\">Morten Fink-Jensen<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The same thing goes for students at the university. On Saturdays, when the last lecture of the week had concluded, students set off to the nearest watering hole in Copenhagen\u2019s Latin Quarter. There were plenty of taverns in the area around <secret text=\"A student residence hall built in the 1600s.\">Regensen<\/secret>: Simons K\u00e6lder on Gammel Torv, Rosen on Gl. Strand, as well as Dyrk\u00f8b, a more distinguished establishment which left such a permanent mark on the city as the street that housed it would eventually be named after it. We know the names of these taverns, because they appear in official records of the time. Students would name them when being questioned by the police.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbPolice records typically tell the same tale. A group of students have been drinking and fighting, and occasionally things really went awry. There are two examples of students getting in a fight over the outcome of a game of cards or dice and one student subsequently stabbing the other to death,\u00ab says Morten Fink-Jensen.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1500s and 1600s most students carried knives with them. Things did not improve when students eventually switched out their knives for rapiers:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbIt led to a lot of duelling. When students had an argument or a fight, they would take it outside in the street and duel armed with rapiers. This was strictly forbidden and the punishment was severe, but it did not deter people from the practice.\u00ab<\/p>\n<h2>Roaming gangs of students<\/h2>\n<p>Far from every student was a drinker (and a fighter), but even so the average University of Copenhagen student of the 1600s differed greatly from the notion of the highbrow academic we have today.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbIn the 1600s, many students at the university were sons of farmers. They did not come from academic homes, they gambled and sang risqu\u00e9 songs in taverns. They roamed the streets in packs and picked fights with sailors, court servants and butcher\u2019s apprentices. They were kind of like gangs fighting over turf.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>The university administration, to some extent, turned a blind eye to student excesses. And attempt was made to combat the problem by prohibiting taverns from extending students credit. This was, however, to no avail:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbThe proprietor of a tavern knew that if he refused to serve students, they would just go across the street to his competitor who was willing to extend them credit.\u00ab<\/p>\n<h2>From heavy drinkers to hard-line teetotallers<\/h2>\n<p>It took a major change in society for students to tone down their alcohol consumption. In the early 1700s the European Pietism movement hit Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbCertain types of social behaviour were now frowned upon. King Christian VI, who was himself a devout Pietist, banned theatres. The development had major ramifications for the students and the ideals of the professors.\u00ab<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They roamed the streets in packs and picked fights with sailors, court servants and butcher\u2019s apprentices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Up until this point, the university had its own dungeon where unruly and drunken students were sent to cool off.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbThe dungeon was closed down due in part to a decrease in offences, but also because it was believed that a dungeon had no place in a university. The notion of the university as a bastion of learning became prevalent\u2014among the students as well as the administration. The students now considered themselves part of an academic society far removed from the masses.\u00ab<\/p>\n<h2>Philosophers and poets of the tavern<\/h2>\n<p>Pietism fell out of favour after the 1750s and in the 1800s, students once again took to drinking in taverns. A new entertainment district sprung up in All\u00e9gade on Frederiksberg, where among others the famous Danish poet Oehlenschl\u00e4ger frequented H\u00e5bet which today houses the TV channel TV 2’s regional outlet in Copenhagen, Lorry. But things had changed since the hay day of binge drinking in the 1600s. Most students now came from middle class homes and they brought a new sense of etiquette with them from the university into the taverns:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbBinge drinking and risqu\u00e9 songs were dropped in favour of lofty philosophical debates. During the Danish Golden Age students drank wine and recited poetry,\u00ab says Mortin Fink-Jensen.<\/p>\n<p>Student unions and fraternities were established, where students would discuss art and culture while smoking their pipes. The development continued well into the following century until a major demographical shift changed everything. The age of the masses\u2014and with them the Friday bar\u2014was rapidly approaching.<\/p>\n<h2>Moderate drinking and the modern university<\/h2>\n<p>Throughout the 1900s, the university of Copenhagen grew steadily. In the 1960s the university experience rapid growth:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbMany new students did not come from academic homes, so they had no expectations or notion of the dominant culture at the university. They came from a social background where going out drinking on Fridays and Saturdays was more common than it was among their peers who had grown up in academic homes,\u00ab says Morten Fink-Jensen.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the university went through a process of fragmentation. Faculties moved out of the inner city. Student social life no longer revolved around the centrally located student unions. The new generation of students were eager to form new social relations and a sense of community spirit at the individual faculties scattered around Copenhagen. Thus the Friday bar was invented.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since, students have been drinking at Friday bar events without being expected to recite bombastic verses of poetry.<\/p>\n<div class=\"dme-external-teaser dme-external-teaser-3\">\n<div class=\"image\">\n<div class=\"dme-image dme-image-center dme-image-preset-0\"><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/universitetsavisen.dk\/campus\/den-store-guide-til-ku-s-fredagsbarer\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"\/old_files\/julie_til_web_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"title\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"label\"><em><strong>Read more:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/the-great-ucph-friday-bar-guide\/\">The great University of Copenhagen Friday bar guide<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00bbIn some ways, students of today resemble their peers of the 1600s,\u00ab says Morten Fink-Jensen.<\/p>\n<p>He does, however, stress that not all students party to cope with the travails of student life\u2014this has always been the case. And according to Morten Fink-Jensen the current generation of students appear to be more moderate in their alcohol consumption than previous generations:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbThere\u2019s been a significant shift in perception over the course of the last decade\u2014within the university administration as well as among the student body. Alcohol and drinking games are not as important to students as they used to be. Today, there are other ways to connect and create a sense of community.<\/p>\n<p><em>(This story was originally published in Danish on 25 August 2015).<\/em><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"ArticleEnd"},{"acf_fc_layout":"OtherStories","headline":"","hand_picked_posts":false,"references":false,"category":false,"theme":false,"number_of_posts":"4","style":"default"}],"feature_color":"#678c0b","article_updated":""},"taxonomyData":{"category":[{"term_id":43,"name":"Culture","slug":"culture","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":43,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":562,"filter":"raw"}],"post_tag":[{"term_id":1879,"name":"alkohol","slug":"alkohol-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1879,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":2224,"name":"druk","slug":"druk-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2224,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":2863,"name":"drukkultur","slug":"drukkultur-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2863,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":1473,"name":"Fredagsbar","slug":"fredagsbar-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1473,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":1475,"name":"Friday bar","slug":"friday-bar","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1475,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":3,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":1326,"name":"New student in Copenhagen","slug":"new-to-copenhagen","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1326,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"New student or researcher in Copenhagen? 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