Danish Famous Names Starting with Letter J

Is a Danish racing driver.In 2007 he participated in six races of the Formula Renault 2.0 Northern E

Is a Danish racing driver.In 2007 he participated in six races of the Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup with KEO Racing. He finished in 41st place in the standings with thirteen points.The following season, Jokinen competed in both the Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup and Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 championships with Motopark Academy & iQuick respectively. He finished fourth in the NEC standings, taking fifteen points-scoring positions in sixteen races, including a win in the eighth race of the season at Oschersleben.[1] In the Eurocup, he took part in the final four races without scoring points.[2]

Was a Danish philologist and Kultus Minister.He was educated at the classical school of Frederiksbor

Was a Danish philologist and Kultus Minister.He was educated at the classical school of Frederiksborg and the University of Copenhagen. In 1828 he became reader, and in 1829 professor of Latin language and literature at Copenhagen, and in 1832 was appointed university librarian. In 1848 Madvig entered parliament as a member of the "Eider-Danish" part -- those who desired the Eider to be the boundary of the country.

Was a Danish Olympic rower and fencer. He competed as a rower at the 1912 Summer Olympics and as a f

Was a Danish Olympic rower and fencer. He competed as a rower at the 1912 Summer Olympics and as a fencer at the 1928 Summer Olympics.[1]

Was a German-Danish general and statesman known for his role in the Count's Feud.Rantzau became espe

Was a German-Danish general and statesman known for his role in the Count's Feud.Rantzau became especially notable due to his participation in the Count’s Feud from 1534-1536. Together with the Holstein nobility, he supported Christian III in spite of the latter’s desperate situation. An attempt of conquering Funen in 1534 ended in a defeat and a humiliating retreat, but in the same year Rantzau crushed Skipper Clement's peasant rebellion in Jutland and secured the peninsula for the king

Was a Danish engraver, printmaker and professor in the Copenhagen Academy.

Was a Danish engraver, printmaker and professor in the Copenhagen Academy.

Is a Danish football striker. She currently plays for Atlanta Beat and the Danish national team.

Is a Danish football striker. She currently plays for Atlanta Beat and the Danish national team.

Was a Danish intermediary. Together with her husband, Michael Agerskov, she was responsible for the

Was a Danish intermediary. Together with her husband, Michael Agerskov, she was responsible for the ethic-religious, philosophic and scientific book, Toward the Light (in Danish, Vandrer mod Lyset!), first published by Michael Agerskov in Copenhagen in 1920.

Was one of the greatest Danish actresses of the 19th century. She is most famous for her work at the

Was one of the greatest Danish actresses of the 19th century. She is most famous for her work at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, where she achieved great success.Like Hans Christian Andersen she originally belonged to a poor milieu. She was the daughter of a stallholder and innkeeper and of his Jewish wife, very early she showed artistic gifts and entered the ballet school 1820. By the help of patrons she was promoted to the rank of an actress and made a successful debut 1827. From then she for more than thirty years appeared the absolutely leading actress of Danish theatre.

Was a Danish artist, drawing artist, and illustrator, and a teacher.From 1754, she was a student of

Was a Danish artist, drawing artist, and illustrator, and a teacher.From 1754, she was a student of the artist couple Frants Michael Regenfuss and Margaretha Ludwig. She illustrated the Auserlesne Schnecken, Musscheln und andere Schaalthiere (1758), and the Flora Danica (1761). In 1762, she became a teacher in the art school for female students protected by the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. In 1772, the school was closed after the fall of Struensees.

A Danish scientist who won the 1926 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Fibiger had claimed to fi

A Danish scientist who won the 1926 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Fibiger had claimed to find an organism he called Spiroptera carcinoma that caused cancer in mice and rats. Later, it was shown that this specific organism was not the primary cause of the tumors. Because of this, some consider Fibiger's Nobel Prize to be undeserved, but others credit Fibiger with showing that external stimuli can induce cancer.

Was a Danish botanist and phycologist, mainly working on diatoms.

Was a Danish botanist and phycologist, mainly working on diatoms.

Was a Danish archaeologist and prehistorian. In 1922 and 1922, he worked in the field with E. Dyggve

Was a Danish archaeologist and prehistorian. In 1922 and 1922, he worked in the field with E. Dyggve, and excavated early Christian monuments in Dalmatia. His account of this excavation was published as Recherches à Salone (1928).

Was a Danish road racing cyclist who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.In 1912 he was a member of

Was a Danish road racing cyclist who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.In 1912 he was a member of the Danish cycling team which finished eighth in the team time trial event. In the individual time trial competition he finished 48th.

Was a Danish amateur footballer, who played one game as a forward for the Denmark national football

Was a Danish amateur footballer, who played one game as a forward for the Denmark national football team, winning a silver medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics. He also competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, France as a track and field athlete.

Was a Danish physicist and educator.He finished his secondary education at Herlufsholm School in 188

Was a Danish physicist and educator.He finished his secondary education at Herlufsholm School in 1880, and took the polytechnical examination in chemistry in 1885. He was an assistant at the Carlsberg Laboratory from 1885 to 1886, and from 1886 to 1891 he taught at the Metropolitan School and the Royal Danish Naval Academy. On 1 April 1891 he became manager of the school for deaf-mute people in Nyborg. School textbooks written by Forchhammer include Mekanisk Fysik (1888) and Astronomi (1889) together with Julius Petersen.[1] He took the dr.philos. degree in 1903 with the thesis Om nødvendigheden af sikre meddelelsesmidler i døvstummeundervisningen. From 1909 to 1926 he headed the Royal Institute for the deaf-mute in Fredericia. He died in 1938.[3]

Was a Danish botanist. He made investigations of flora and vegetation in Denmark, the Faroe Islands,

Was a Danish botanist. He made investigations of flora and vegetation in Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland and Estonia. He was editor of The Botany of Iceland from vol. 3 part 2.

Was a Danish writer and schoolmaster who experienced the Three Years' War firsthand.Johannes was bor

Was a Danish writer and schoolmaster who experienced the Three Years' War firsthand.Johannes was born on Saturday the 8th of November in the year 1828 in his parents home in Esbønderup County. His father, Søren Bagger Helms (1788-1872), was the local rector and his mother, Nicoline Marie Zeuthen (1789-1870), was her husband's second wife. The Helms household also contained a four year elder brother Jakob Helms who became priest and made extensive reconstruction of several Danish churches.

Was a Danish chess master.At the beginning of his career, he tied for 4-5th in Copenhagen 1895 (Andr

Was a Danish chess master.At the beginning of his career, he tied for 4-5th in Copenhagen 1895 (Andreas Rosendahl won). Giersing played several times in Nordic Chess Championship, and won at Kristiania (now Oslo) 1903 (4th Nord-ch).

Was a Danish boxer who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics.In 1928 he was eliminated in the second

Was a Danish boxer who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics.In 1928 he was eliminated in the second of the middleweight class after losing his fight to the upcoming gold medalist Piero Toscani.

Was a Danish palaeoecologist and plant ecologist, who made a major impact on pollen analysis as a sc

Was a Danish palaeoecologist and plant ecologist, who made a major impact on pollen analysis as a scientific discipline. He was born in Sønderborg and began studies in botany at the University of Copenhagen in 1923 under professor C.H. Ostenfeld, and with considerable inspiration from prof.em. Christen Raunkiær. At first he worked with macrophyte vegetation of lakes in relation to water pH. The influence from Raunkiær is particularly evident in Iversen‘s doctoral thesis, in which he divided herbaceous plants into hydrotypes based on experiments and morphological studies: xerophytes, mesophytes, hygrophytes

Was a Danish film actor. He appeared in 19 films between 1949 and 1981.

Was a Danish film actor. He appeared in 19 films between 1949 and 1981.

Was a Danish film actor.

Was a Danish film actor.

Was a Danish physical chemist.He received a degree in chemical engineering in 1899 and his Ph. D. in

Was a Danish physical chemist.He received a degree in chemical engineering in 1899 and his Ph. D. in 1908 from the University of Copenhagen. He was immediately appointed professor of inorganic and physical chemistry at Copenhagen.In 1906 he published his first of many papers on electron affinity. In 1923 he introduced the protonic theory of acid-base reactions, simultaneously with the English chemist Thomas Martin Lowry. The same year, the electronic theory was proposed by Gilbert N. Lewis, but both theories are commonly used.

Was a Danish architect. He was the son of an important developer in Viborg, and graduated from the R

Was a Danish architect. He was the son of an important developer in Viborg, and graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Art in 1938 after having completed a degree as a constructor in Århus.In 1942, during the occupation of Denmark, he established an architect's office in Virum. In the following decades he left a stamp on buildings in contiguously built-up urban areas of Copenhagen.

Was a noted theologian and linguist.Pedersen believed that "objective thought, that is to say, inact

Was a noted theologian and linguist.Pedersen believed that "objective thought, that is to say, inactive, disinterested thought" does not exist in most instances. Pederson was committed to the assumption that the full social context is necessary to understanding written texts.