Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig, most often referred to as N. F. S. Grundtvig, was a Danish pastor, author, poet, philosopher, historian, teacher and politician. He was one of the most influential people in Danish history, as his philosophy gave rise to a new form of nationalism in the last half of the 19th century. It was steeped in the national literature and supported by deep spirituality.
Viborg is a city in central Jutland, Denmark, the capital of both Viborg municipality and Region Midtjylland. Viborg is also the seat of the Western High Court, the High Court for the Jutland peninsula. Viborg Municipality is the second-largest Danish municipality, covering 3.3% of the country's total land area.
Hack Kampmann was a Danish architect, Royal Inspector of Listed State Buildings in Jutland and professor at the architecture department of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Marselisborg Palace in Aarhus, built between 1899 and 1902, is among his best known works.
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Søren Gyldendal was a Danish bookstore owner who founded Gyldendal which became Denmark's largest publishing house.
Frode Jakobsen, was a Danish writer and politician who is remembered for his contribution to Danish resistance activities during the German occupation of Denmark in the Second World War. He established and ran the resistance organization known as Ringen (Ring), also called Frode Jakobsen's Ringen.
Jørgen Hansen Koch was a Neoclassical Danish architect. He was chief of the national Danish building administration from 1835 and director of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1844 to 1849.
Rasmus Morten Andersen was a Danish sculptor. He is mainly known for his naturalistic portraits.
Vilhelm Theodor Walther was a Danish architect and Royal Building Inspector for Jutland. He was born in Kongens Lyngby, Denmark and died in Aarhus. He was twice awarded the Academy's Neuhausen Prize for excellence in architecture and in 1885, he received the Cross of Honor of the Order of the Dannebrog. Walther completed a considerable amount of restoration work on the cathedral and St Paul's Church in Aarhus and designed a number of churches in the area. Walther died in Aarhus in 1892 of cholera.
Lise Rønne is a Danish journalist and television presenter, best known in Denmark for presenting four seasons of X Factor as well as two seasons of Dansk Melodi Grand Prix. She is best known outside Denmark for presenting the Eurovision Song Contest in 2014.
Morten Børup (1446–1526) was a Danish educator, cathedral cantor and Latin poet.
Ludvig Brandstrup was a Danish sculptor. He is remembered above all for his equestrian statue of Christian IX in Esbjerg but was also one of the most competent portraitists of his day.
Carl Georg Ferdinand Thielemann was a Danish architect and royal building inspector during the 19th century. Thielemann was the brother of sculptors Christian and Theobald Thielemann and was born in Copenhagen. He studied architecture in 1819–20 at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts under the tutelage of Christian Frederik Hansen. Thielemann was mainly taught the Neoclassical style but during the 1880s Historicism flourished and he adapted to the new style. After graduation Thielemann worked for Christian Frederik Hansen and Gustav Friedrich Hetsch as a conductor for their projects.
Knud Friis was a Danish Modernistic architect who worked extensively in Denmark and founded Friis & Moltke.
Vitus Pedersen Bering was a Danish poet and historian. He served as Danish Historiographer Royal and was the great uncle of the explorer Vitus Bering (1681–1741).
Elna Møller Moltke was a Danish architect and author.
Sofie Linde Ingversen, professionally known as Sofie Linde, is a Danish television presenter and main presenter of the Danish X-Factor.
Michael Jansson is an economist and the Edward G. and Nancy S. Jordan Family professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Sofie Hesselholdt and Vibeke Mejlvang are a collaborative duo of visual artists who live and work in Copenhagen. They started collaborating in late 1999 and work with performance art and site-specific installations in public spaces addressing social and political topics such as National Identity and Eurocentrism.
Vibeke von Sperling was a Danish newspaper and broadcast journalist. She began working as a teaching assistant teaching about the Central and Eastern Europe as well as the Soviet Union at Aarhus University and Roskilde University before joining the staff at Dagbladet Information newspaper in 1978, where she would become its editor-in-chief in 1983. Sperling began working for DR Radio in 1987 until she joined the newspaper Politiken and became the first female foreign affairs editor at a Danish national newspaper while there in 2000 before becoming a foreign employee and commentator at the publication in 2003. She was the author of ten books on Eastern European politics, Russia and Yugoslavia.
