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Peter Andreas Heiberg

Danish author and philologist · Denmark · On the map · Writers · Lived 1758 to 1841 · aged 82

Peter Andreas Heiberg was a Danish-Norwegian author and philologist. He was born in Vordingborg, Denmark-Norway. The Heiberg ancestry can be traced back to Norway, and has produced a long line of priests, headmasters and other learned men.

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His father was the Norwegian-born headteacher of the grammar school in Vordingborg, Ludvig Heiberg, whilst his mother was Inger Margrethe, daughter of the vicar at the manor of Vemmetofte Peder Heiberg, a relative of Ludvig Heiberg, and Inger Hørning, who came from a family of wealthy Danish merchants.

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Denmark
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1758 to 1841 · aged 82