Erik Pontoppidan
Danish writer, bishop and scholar
Died when: 66 years 118 days (795 months)Star Sign: Virgo
Erik Ludvigsen Pontoppidan (24 August 1698 – 20 December 1764) was a Danish author, a Lutheran bishop of the Church of Norway, an historian, and an antiquarian.
His Catechism of the Church of Denmark heavily influenced Danish and Norwegian religious thought and practice for roughly the next 200 years after its 1737 publication.
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