Matthias Bjørnlund is a Danish historian. In 2003-2005 he was the workshop leader of Department for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

 in connection with the commemoration of the international Auschwitz Day.

He received his MA in history from the University of Copenhagen

University of Copenhagen

The University of Copenhagen is the oldest and largest university and research institution in Denmark. Founded in 1479, it has more than 37,000 students, the majority of whom are female , and more than 7,000 employees. The university has several campuses located in and around Copenhagen, with the...

. His Thesis was "A People is Being Murdered: The Armenian Genocide in Danish Sources". He is also working as a researcher and translator of Danish documents on the Armenian Genocide

Armenian Genocide

The Armenian Genocide—also known as the Armenian Holocaust, the Armenian Massacres and, by Armenians, as the Great Crime—refers to the deliberate and systematic destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during and just after World War I...

with a partial funding by a grant from the Danish Ministry of Culture.

Sources

• Interview with Mattias Bjørnlund