Christian Fleischer (10 August 1713 – 21 March 1768) was a Danish civil servant in the naval administration. He was a son of Herman Reinhold Fleischer (1656–1712). His father died before he was born, but several of his uncles had notable careers in Norway. Baltzer Fleischer was his brother, thus Christian Fleischer was a great uncle of

Palle Rømer Fleischer Palle Rømer Fleischer (25 October 1781 – 4 April 1851) was a Norwegian Military Officer and Government Minister. He served as a representative at the Norwegian Constitutional Assembly. Palle Rømer Fleischer was born at Moss in Østfold, Nor ...

. The family had roots in Elbing,

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. He took education from 1730 to 1733, and was then hired as a private tutor for Count Ulrik Adolf Danneskjold-Samsøe ( :da:Ulrik Adolph Danneskiold-Samsøe). He would serve the Count in his later professional life. He was a secretary and chief auditor in the naval administration in the 1740s. In 1754, he became the only non-noble member of the Collegium of the Admiralty and Commissariat-General. He headed the naval

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from 1767 (acting since 1763). He also contributed in language studies. He wrote the piece ''Forsøg til Sprogets Forbedring i Henseende til enstydige og ubestemte Ord'' in the work ''Sorøske Samlinger'', which he released in 1765 together with Gerstenberg and Kleen. He also contributed to ''Schleswiger Litteraturbriefe'' in 1766 and 1767. He also befriended

Morten Thrane Brünnich Morten Thrane Brünnich (30 September 1737 – 19 September 1827) was a Danish zoologist and mineralogist. Biography Brünnich was born in Copenhagen, the son of a portrait painter. He studied oriental languages and theology, but soon became i ...

, and a bird collection of Fleischer's helped Brünnich write his ''Ornithologia Borealis'' in 1764. He died in March 1768.

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1713 births 1768 deaths Danish civil servants 18th-century Danish non-fiction writers {{Denmark-bio-stub