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Erik Pontoppidan was born at Aarhus, Denmark on the 24th of August 1698.
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Erik Pontoppidan was born at Aarhus, Denmark on the 24th of August 1698.
He studied divinity at the university of Copenhagen, and for some time acted as a travelling tutor, at the same time studying in Holland, and in London and Oxford, England.
In 1721 he became informator of Frederick Carl of Carlstein (later duke of Plön), and two years later morning preacher in the castle and afternoon preacher in Nordborg. From 1726 to 1734 he was pastor at Hagenberg.
In 1733 he became one of the chaplains of the king.
In 1738 he was made professor extraordinary of theology at Copenhagen, and in 1745 bishop of Bergen, Norway, where he died on the 20th of December 1764.
His principal works are: Theatrum Daniae veteris et modernae (1730), a description of the geography, natural history, antiquities, etc. , of Denmark; Gesta et vestigia danorum extra Daniam (3 vols. 8vo, 1740), a laborious but uncritical work; Annates ecclesiae danicae. (3 vols. , 1741 - 1747); Marmora danica selectiora (2 vols. fol. , 1739 - 1741); Glossarium norvegicum (1749); Det forste forsog Norges naturlige hislorie (1752 - 1754); Eng. trans. , Natural History of Norway (2 vols. , 1755), containing curious accounts, often referred to, of the Kraaken, sea-serpent, and the like; Origines hafnienses (1760); Menoza (3 vols. , 1742 - 1743), a religious novel. His Danske Atlas (7 vols. ), a historical and topographical account of Denmark, was mostly posthumous.
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