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to the city in 1807, which nearly doubled the area then
belonging to Tórshavn.
However, much about his life remains in the dark, and
perhaps for this very reason a number of Løbner’s
descendants have tried to mystify the man. Among other
things, it has been suggested that the insane monarch
Christian VII was his father; in that case, Løbner’s mother
became pregnant when Christian was still a prince. Løbner
was born in 1766, the same year that Christian was crowned,
and it is not unthinkable that the prince paid a visit to his
relations at Augustenborg Palace the year previous.
Løbner’s father, namely, was chamber lackey at
Augustenborg.
It is also difficult to find information on what exactly
Løbner did during those last years after he returned to his
homeland. There is some indication that he lived with
Caroline Wroblewsky, who ran a private school in
Copenhagen for a while. Wroblewsky adopted a young girl,
Emilie Christine, and she took over her foster mother’s
school in 1858. Among other things, the
Dansk
Kvindebiografisk Leksikon
, a biographical encyclopedia of
Danish women, records that:
In 1850 she
(Emilie Christine)
changed her name to Løbner after her adoptive father, the
former county administrator of the Faroe Islands Emilius
Marius Løbner, who died the previous year.