Jakob Langebek

Jakob Langebek
Etching after a 1751 portrait miniature by S. Abildgaard

Jakob Langebek (23 January 1710 - 16 August 1775) was a Danish historian

Biography

He was born at Skjoldborg. He first studied Danish history, and it was by critical articles on contemporary writers in this field that he attracted attention. He founded a society for the study of the language and history of Denmark in 1745, and was its perpetual archivist. His works consist of valuable contributions on his favorite subject to the journals, and to the Danske Magazin (1745–52), which he edited and nearly all of which he wrote himself; and Scriptores Rerum Danicarum Medii Œvi . . . (1772–74), which was completed by Suhm, Schoening, and others from original papers, in 1778. He also collected material for a Danish dictionary. A collection of his letters was published in 1795.

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•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Moore, F., eds. (1905). "Langebek, Jakob". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.