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See also:PONTOPPIDAN, ERIK (1698—1764) , Danish author, was See also:born at See also:Aarhus on the 24th of See also:August 1658. He studied divinity at the university of See also:Copenhagen, and for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time acted as a travelling See also:tutor. In 1735 he became one of the chaplains of the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king. In 1738 he was made See also:professor extra-See also:ordinary of See also:theology at Copenhagen, and in 1745 See also:bishop of See also:Bergen, See also:Norway, where he died on the loth of See also:December 1764.
His See also:principal See also:works are: Theatrum Daniae veteris et modernae (4to, 1730), a description of the See also:geography, natural See also:history, antiquities, &c., of See also:Denmark; Gesta et vestigia danorum extra Daniam (3 vols. 8vo, 1740), a laborious but uncritical See also:work; Annales ecclesiae danicae. (3 vols., 1741—1747) ; See also:Marmora danica selectiora (2vols. fol., 1739—1741); Glossarium norvegicum (1749); Det forste forsog Norges naturlige hisiorie (4to, 1752—1754) ; Eng. trans., Natural History of Norway (2 vols., 1755), containing curious accounts, often referred to, of the Kraaken, See also:sea-See also:serpent, and the like; Origines hafnienses (176o); Menoza (3 vols., 1742—1743), a religious novel. HisDanske See also:Atlas (7 vols. 4to), an See also:historical and topographical See also:account of Denmark, was mostly See also:posthumous.
See an See also:article by S. M. Gjellerup in Danish .Biografisk Lexikon (vol. xiii., 1899).
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