person
Christoph Detlev Brigge
the Chamberlain
also: Kammerherr Brigge, Chamberlain Brigge
Malte's paternal grandfather, the old Chamberlain of Ulsgaard; his two-month, bellowing death---a death that becomes its own lordly person---is the book's great image of the 'death of one's own.'
Reading notes
- The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge §19 Chamberlain
Kammerherr, a high officer of a princely or royal household; the title marks Malte's paternal grandfather, Christoph Detlev Brigge, as old Danish court nobility.
- The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge §24 Christoph Detlev Brigge
Malte's grandfather, the old Chamberlain of Ulsgaard; his prolonged, bellowing death is the book's great instance of the lordly 'death of one's own.'