Erik Helmer Pedersen dr.phil. Born 1932. From 1968 to 2001 he was Associate professor of History at the Department of History, University of Copenhagen. Her was mainly occupied with economic history, with special reference to Danish agricultural history, and in 1979 he chose for his Dr. Phil. thesis the history of the Danish Agricultural Board 1919-1933 (Landsbrugsrådet som erhvervspolitisk toporgan 1919-33). Together with other books and articles on agricultural History, he has also written the history of Danish agriculture in the 20th century: Det danske landbrugs historie 1914-1988 (1988). In the 1980s he also worked on Danish emigration history, notably in Drømmen om Amerika (The Dream of America) 1985 and  Pionererne (The Danish Pioneers) 1986. Since his retirement in he has primarily been occupied with Danish local history.