Aage Madsen (25 May 1883 – 9 April 1937) was a Danish

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player. He competed in two events at the

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Early life and education

Madsen was born on 25 May 1883 in

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, the son of merchant Anders Sudergaard Madsen and Anne Catharina Dorothea Poulsen. He graduated from Borgerdyd School in Copenhagen in 1901. He completed his law studies (cand. jur.) at the

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in 1907.

Career

Madsen was a paralegal in

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. He briefly worked for the ''By- og Herredsret'' in

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and

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Birk in 1909–10 before his employment as an assistant in the Ministry of Financial Aggairs later in 1910. He worked as a copyist at the ''Landsoverret'' and ''Hof- og Stadsret-ten'' from 1015 and as a police accessor in Copenhagen from 1919. On 25 July 1919, he was licensed as a high court attorney (''Overretssagfører''). He was employed as a Police Attorney in 1028. He resigned in 1934 due to illness.

Personal life

Madsen married dentist Mary Agnes Herskind on 23 December 1914. He died on 9 April 1937 in Copenhagen.

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* * 1883 births 1937 deaths Danish male tennis players Olympic tennis players for Denmark Tennis players at the 1912 Summer Olympics 20th-century Danish lawyers University of Copenhagen alumni Sportspeople from Faaborg-Midtfyn Municipality {{Denmark-tennis-bio-stub