Talk:Curt Weibull

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An anecdote tells that when a Danish historian was counter-criticizing parts of Weibull's treatise on Saxo Grammaticus in a doctoral dissertation (believing he was dead since this was after his 100th birthday) Weibull appeared on the public disputation angrily defending his work.

As far as I know this story relates to Carsten Breengaard's doctoral thesis Muren om Israels hus from 1982. In 1986 and 1987 there was a debate in the Danish periodical Historisk Tiddskrift between Weibull and Breengaard on the same subject. So Weibull would "only" have been around 96 when the oral public debate took place but 100 when the writen debate was undertaken.

I find it highly unlikely that the debate was over another doctoral thesis. Inge Skovgaard-Petersen, author of Da Tidernes Herre var nær from 1987, wouldn't have been suprised by Weibull being alive because of the Breengaard/Weibull debate. --Heelgrasper 23:05, 31 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]