- Erik
Ludvigsen Pontoppidan (24
August 1698 – 20
December 1764) was a
Danish author, a
Lutheran bishop of the
Church of Norway, a historian, and an antiquarian...
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description of the
creature is
usually credited to the
Danish bishop Pontoppidan (1753).
Pontoppidan was the
first to
describe the
kraken as an
octopus (polypus)...
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Henrik Pontoppidan (Danish: [ˈhenˀʁek pʰʌnˈtsʰʌpitæn]; 24 July 1857 – 21
August 1943) was a
Danish realist writer who
shared with Karl
Gjellerup the Nobel...
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Pontoppidan (10 July 1853–21
October 1916) was a
Danish psychiatrist and coroner. The
brother of
writer and
Nobel Prize Laureate Henrik Pontoppidan,...
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Clara Pontoppidan (23
April 1883 – 22
January 1975), also
known as
Clara Wieth, was a
Danish actress. She
worked mainly in
Swedish and
Danish silent films...
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Hendrik Pontoppidan (21
March 1814 in
Thisted – 22
February 1901) was a
Danish merchant,
consul and philanthropist. His
parents were
priest Børge P. Glahn...
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Julie Pontoppidan (born 28
August 1996) is a
Danish handball player who
currently plays for
French league club
Handball Club Celles-sur-Belle. She used...
- (Danish: Lykke-Per) is a
novel by
Danish Nobel Prize–winning
author Henrik Pontoppidan published in
eight volumes between 1898 and 1904. It is
considered one...
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convinced Bishop Pontoppidan that this was
different from the type of sea
serpent seen by others. From Bing's drawing,
Pontoppidan estimated the creature...
- Breakthrough, this
movement was
championed by
Georg Brandes,
Henrik Pontoppidan (awarded the
Nobel Prize in Literature) and J. P. Jacobsen. Romanticism...
