Christian Klingberg (16 December 1765 – 9 February 1821) was a Danish Supreme Court attorney and chief legal officer of the

Danish Asiatic Company Danish Asiatic Company (Danish language, Danish: Asiatisk Kompagni) was a Denmark-Norway, Danish trading company established in 1730 to revive Danish-Norwegian trade on the Danish East Indies and China following the closure of the Danish East Ind ...

Early life and education

Klingberg was born on 16 December 1765 in Copenhagen, the son of lottery inspector-general Jacob Klingberg (1719–82) and Karen Lund (1733–1806). He graduated from

Frederiksborg Latin School Frederiksborg Latin School ( Danish: Frederiksborg Latinskole) is a former latin school in Hillerød, Denmark. The school changed its name to Frederiksborg State School (Danish: Frederiksborg Statsskole) in 1903. The school moved to new premises ...

in 1783 and passed his legal exams (cand.jur.) at the

University of Copenhagen The University of Copenhagen (, KU) is a public university, public research university in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in Scandinavia, after Uppsala University. ...

in 1787.

Career

He was a lawyer at the Hof- og Stadsret from 1791 and became a Supreme Court Attorney in 1792. This was within

Denmark–Norway Denmark–Norway (Danish language, Danish and Norwegian language, Norwegian: ) is a term for the 16th-to-19th-century multi-national and multi-lingual real unionFeldbæk 1998:11 consisting of the Kingdom of Denmark, the Kingdom of Norway (includ ...

. He was in addition chief legal officer of the

Danish Asia Company Danish Asiatic Company ( Danish: Asiatisk Kompagni) was a Danish trading company established in 1730 to revive Danish-Norwegian trade on the Danish East Indies and China following the closure of the Danish East India Company. It was granted a 40 ...

1812–19 and briefly served as director of the Bank of Denmark in 1818. In 1813, he was designated as Supreme Court justice but never used this appointment. Klingberg was recognized as one of the leading lawyers of his time and acted as defense attorney in a number of high-profile cases, for instance for

Conrad Malte-Brun Conrad Malte-Brun (; born Malthe Conrad Bruun; 12 August 177514 December 1826), sometimes referred to simply as Malte-Brun, was a Dano- French geographer and journalist. His second son, Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun, was also a geographer. Today he ...

Personal life

Klingberg married Lovise Elisabeth Klingberg (20 February 1772 – 13 February 1855), a daughter of Lauritz Klongberg (1728–95) and Catharina Elisabeth Schumacher (1745–92), on 28 May 1796 in the

Holmen Church The Holmen Church () is a Parish church in central Copenhagen in Denmark, on the street called Holmens Kanal. First built as an anchor forge in 1563, it was converted into a naval church by Christian IV. It is famous for having hosted the wedd ...

. Klingberg died on 9 February 1821 in Copenhagen and is buried at Valsølille Cemetery.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Klingberg, Christian 18th-century Danish lawyers 19th-century Danish lawyers Jurists from Denmark–Norway Governors of the Bank of Denmark Directors of the Danish Asiatic Company Lawyers from Copenhagen University of Copenhagen alumni 1765 births 1821 deaths