Forfatter: Erik Ribsskog

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Comments to: Clive Hawkins,

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From: Erik Ribsskog [mailto:eribsskog@gmail.com]

Sent: 01 November 2009 04:00

To: DSD Enquiries

Subject: Enquiery about Didrik Galtrup Gjedde

Nyholm, judge in Cairo, from Denmark/Fwd: FW: About Diderik Galtrup Gjedde

Nyholm, judge in British imperial Egypt

Hi,

I'm a Norwegian citizen, living in the UK.

I was adviced by the University of Cambridge,

to contact you.

It's regarding my ancestor, Didrik Galtrup

Gjedde Nyholm, from Denmark, who was my grandmother, Ingeborg Ribsskog's

grand-uncle.

He worked in an international court in Cairo,

and I was just wondering if I have illuminists/kabalists, in my family, so I

was wondering if he stated any interests in old egyptian religion etc., when he

got the job as a judge in Cairo?

Since I have so many 'New Age'-people in my

family, and my grandmother was also 'New Age', so I was wondering if the judge

was 'New Age', since the judge's brother, my grandmoters grandfather, the

general Anders (Gjedde) Nyholm, was in charge of all of Denmarks war-forces,

(chief of the generalkommando), in the 1920's, so I was wondering if he or

someone in my family, where 'New Age "spies"'.

Here is more about Didrik Galtrup Gjedde

Nyholm:

SECOND YEAR BOOK OF THE LEAGUE OF

NATIONS.

DIDRIK GALTRUP GJEDDE NYHOLM (Denmark).

Member of the International Mixed Tribunal at

Cairo since

1896 and Vice-President of that body since

1916; Justice of

the Court of Appeals at Copenhagen; member of

the Perma-

nent Court of Arbitration at The Hague;

author of one of the

draft schemes for an International Court of

Justice used by

the Committee of International Jurists as a

basis for the

scheme finally adopted by the League.

http://www.archive.org/stream/yearbookofleague02leveuoft/yearbookofleague02leveuoft_djvu.txt

Thanks in advance for any help!

Yours sincerely,

Erik Ribsskog

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From: J.P. Slight <jps50@cam.ac.uk>

Date: Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:07 PM

Subject: Re: FW: About Diderik Galtrup Gjedde

Nyholm, judge in British imperial Egypt

To: eribsskog@gmail.com

Dear Erik,

My PhD supervisor Dr. Harper forwarded your

email to me.

I think you should visit the National

Archives in person and explain to them the person you are looking for – the staff

are very good and you may find something there.

In Egypt, and many parts of the British

Empire, non-British Europeans often filled positions such as judges. The

British were only concerned to exclude natives of the country they were ruling

(at least until the later nineteenth century). Particularly in the Egyptian

case there was a long precedent of Europeans holding positions of power

(Egypt's ruler in the early nineteenth century Muhammad Ali was Albanian, and

many Europeans were employed in the finance ministry, the judiciary, the police

force, and especially the Army). I hope this answers your question.

With best wishes,

John Slight

From: Erik Ribsskog [mailto:eribsskog@gmail.com]

Sent: 28 October 2009 05:54

To: tnh1000@cam.ac.uk

Subject: About Diderik Galtrup Gjedde Nyholm,

judge in British imperial Egypt

Hi,

I'm a Norwegian citizen, who's living in the

UK, (due to problems with my family etc., without that I've done anything

wrong, that I know of, at least, in Norway), and I have a late grandmoter from

Denmark, Ingeborg Ribsskog, who said that she was from the Danish noble-family

Gjedde.

But I've later found out, on the internet,

that they weren't noble after all, so this was a lie, I think I have to say.

And, in her family, was eg. her grandfather,

her mothers father, Anders Gjedde Nyholm, who was Chief of the Generalkommando,

that's the general with control on all of Denmarks war-forces, in the 1920's.

And her grand-uncle, was Diderik Galtrup

Gjedde Nyholm, who was a judge, for the British imperial courts, in Cairo, and

then later a judge in the International Court, in Hague, in the 1920's.

I wonder why they would lie about the noble

backgroud.

Anders Gjedde Nyholm, only wrote A. Nyholm,

I've seen, as a signature, on official portrait-photographs in the Danish

military-archives.

And their grandfather, was a farmers son,

I've read on Thisted Museum's, in Denmark's, website.

So they weren't noble, but they maybe used

the Gjedde-name to get prestige, because of the famous Admiral and colonisator

of Tharambangdi, in India, for Denmark-Norway, Ove Gjedde, was famous, and

maybe they pretended to be from the same family?

I've tried to serch the British National

Archives online, about this, but I got no result, so I didn't know how to try

to find out about this, other than contacting a good university.

I was wondering why the British Imperial

Courts in Cairo, would let a Dane, (my grandmothers grand-uncle), Diderik

Galtrup Gjedde Nyholm, be a judge, in the British Empire?

Isn't this a bit strange, weren't this

positions normally given to people from the British Empire?

I hope you have the chance to answer about

this, or that you know of someone who might know about this!

I hope it's alright to ask about this, and I

apologise, if it isn't.

Yours sincerely,

Erik Ribsskog

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