Oscar Alexander Ræder was a Danish writer.

He was born 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...

 as a son of Colonel Jacob Thode Ræder (1798–1853). He was a brother of Carl Gustav Valdemar Ræder

Carl Gustav Valdemar Ræder

Carl Gustav Valdemar Ræder was a Danish farmer and writer.He was born in Copenhagen as a son of Colonel Jacob Thode Ræder...

 and Johan Georg Frederik Ræder

Johan Georg Frederik Ræder

Johan Georg Frederik Ræder was a Danish civil servant and writer.He was born in Copenhagen as a son of Colonel Jacob Thode Ræder...

, grandson of Johan Georg Ræder

Johan Georg Ræder (1751–1808)

Johan Georg Ræder was a Norwegian military officer.-Personal life:He was born in Meldal as a son of Johan Christopher Rhäder and his second wife Cathrine Margrethe Riiber. He was the grandson of Johan Georg Rhäder, the person who immigrated to Norway and started the family branch there...

, a nephew of Johan Christopher Ræder

Johan Christopher Ræder (1782–1853)

Johan Christopher Ræder was a Norwegian military officer. He was of German and Danish descent, and partly served in the Danish army.-Personal life:...

, Nicolai Ditlev Amund Ræder and Johan Philip Thomas Ræder, a first cousin of Jacques Ræder

Jacques Ræder

Hans Jacob "Jacques" Theodor Wilhelm Ræder was a Norwegian military officer.He was born in Trondhjem as a son of Johan Christopher Ræder and Kaja Munch. He was a grandson of Johan Georg Ræder, brother of Nicolai Ditlev Ammon Ræder, Johan Georg Ræder, and Ole Munch Ræder, and an uncle of Anton...

, Ole Munch Ræder

Ole Munch Ræder

Ole Munch Ræder was a Norwegian jurist and diplomatist. He was born in Kongsvinger. He was consul for Sweden-Norway at Malta from 1861 to 1869, in Alexandria from 1869 to 1871, at Malta from 1871 to 1874, and in Hamburg from 1874 to 1891. He was Commander, First Class of the Order of St. Olav and...

, Nicolai Ditlev Ammon Ræder

Nicolai Ditlev Ammon Ræder

Nicolai Ditlev Ammon Ræder was a Norwegian jurist and politician.A jurist by education, he worked as a civil servant in various government ministries, and as a fut in Hallingdal....

 and Johan Georg Ræder

Georg Ræder

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 and an uncle of Hans Henning Ræder. In September 1874 he married Agnes Elise Albertha Helsted, a daughter of Frederik Ferdinand Helsted

Frederik Ferdinand Helsted

Frederik Ferdinand Helsted was a Danish painter and drawing master. He was the father of painter Axel Helsted, and the grandfather of composers Carl Helsted and Edvard Helsted. From 1834 to 1837 he studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and later travelled in Europe...

. After Oscar's death she married Johan Georg Frederik Ræder.

He finished his secondary education at Copenhagen Metropolitan School i 1862, and graduated in history in 1866. He issued the historical-philosophical works Om den hellige og profane Historie in 1870, Historiske Love in 1871, De tyske og nordiske Nationer in 1873 and Om de uhistoriske og historiske Folk in 1875. He tried to take the doctorate with the latter book, but failed. He gave up historiography, and travelled to Rome

Rome

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 where he became vice consul

Consul (representative)

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for Denmark, Sweden and Norway. He died in November 1877.