Brøndum, Erik
Erik Andersen Brøndum 1820-1890, gæstgiver, købmand
Født: 5. november 1820
Gift: 10. november 1847 (Ane Hedvig Møller)
Død: 7. maj 1890
Aneblad i Lundholm Sørensens Arkiv
Lokationer i Skagen
Relationer
Børnene:
Et portræt af Erik Brøndum findes i Anchers Hus, Nordstuen (pastel af Anna Ancher)
A portrait of Erik Brøndum in Anchers House, North Room (pastel by Anna Ancher)
Biografi i relation til Skagen
Søn af købmand Anders Ericsen Brøndum, 1781 - 1835, og Anne Kirstine Houmann, 1785-1858.
Kom i lære hos silkehandler Th. Høyer i 1836 og blev uddannet som klædehandler i København fire år senere.
Blev kaldt hjem til Skagen, hvor hans mor, enken Anne Kirstine Brøndum, havde arvet stedfaderen Chresten Degns købmandsforretning. Han kom så i lære som købmand i Frederikshavn i yderligere 3 år. Ansat 1844 i sin moders købmandsbutik i Østerby, som han overtog, da han i 1847 løste borgerskab som købmand en gros og en detail i Skagen Kjøbstad.
I 1846 blev han gift med Ane Hedvig Møller og deres vilkår var vanskelige de første mange år. En truende fallit 1850 blev afværget af hans svigerfar, Søren Møllebygger, og i 1861 fik han hvervet som overformynder. I 1859 fik han tillige borgerskab som gæstgiver, og under hans ledelse og med hustruens og tre børns (Chresten Degn, Marie og Hulda) indsats voksede Brøndums Gæstgivergård i takt med kunstnerkolonien i Skagen.
Der findes kun ganske få efterretninger om ham som person. Hans forhold til kone og børn syntes kompliceret. Han stod for driften af butik og hotel og var i hvert tilfælde i sine yngre år konverserende og underholdt sig lejlighedsvis ved at spille kort med gæsterne.
H.C. Andersen finder Erik Brøndum lettere irriterende, da han opholder sig i stuen med H.C.Andersen og Christian Uldall i 1859, hvor han konstant ryger tobak og blander sig i samtalen.
Biography in relation to Skagen
Son of merchant Anders Ericsen Brøndum, 1781 - 1835, and Anne Kirstine Houmann, 1785-1858.
Apprenticed to silk merchant Th. Høyer in 1836 and trained as a clothier in Copenhagen four years later.
Was called home to Skagen, where his mother, the widow Anne Kirstine Brøndum, had inherited her stepfather Chresten Degn's grocery business. He was then apprenticed as a merchant in Frederikshavn for another 3 years. Employed in 1844 in his mother's grocery store in Østerby, which he took over when he became a citizen in 1847 as a grocer en gros and a retailer in Skagen Kjøbstad.
In 1846 he married Ane Hedvig Møller and their circumstances were difficult for the first several years. An impending bankruptcy in 1850 was averted by his father-in-law, Søren Møllebygger, and in 1861 he was appointed chief guardian. In 1859, he was also granted citizenship as a host, and under his leadership and with the efforts of his wife and three children (Chresten Degn, Marie and Hulda), Brøndum's host farm grew in step with the artists' colony in Skagen.
There are few records of him as a person. His relationship with his wife and children seemed complicated. He ran the shop and hotel and, at least in his younger years, was conversational and occasionally entertained himself by playing cards with guests.
Hans Christian Andersen finds Erik Brøndum slightly annoying when he stays in the living room with H.C. Andersen and Christian Uldall in 1859, constantly smoking tobacco and interfering with the conversation.
Links:
http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Andersen_Br%C3%B8ndum
http://www.broendums-hotel.dk/default.asp?id=35
Litteratur:
Se Knud Voss: Hos Brøndums i Skagen, side 9 ff om Erik Brøndum.
Claus Jacobsen, Brøndums Hotel, Stedet og maden, Aschehoug 2003