Bredo Otto Anton von Munthe af Morgenstierne (6 March 1871, in

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– 20 May 1945, in Copenhagen) was a Danish historian of

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and

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. Albert Fabritius, "Otto von Munthe af Morgenstierne", in:

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(eds.), ''

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'', København: J.H. Schultz Forlag 1932–44. He was the son of

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Otto Ludvig Michael von Munthe af Morgenstierne (1831–1899) and Baroness Anna Helene Mariane Løvenskiold (1839–1921), and graduated as

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in 1898. He became a Knight of the

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in 1931. He inherited ''Det Munthe-Morgenstierne- Løvenskiold'ske Fideikommis'' in 1921, and was chairman of the Urne Endowment from 1919. He wrote on the history of nobility and on

, and published books on

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(1924),

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in Copenhagen (1926) and Field Marshal Michael Numsen i 1938. He also wrote on the position of the Norwegian nobility compared to the Danish nobility (''Personalhistorisk Tidsskrift'', Vol. 9, I, 1929), where he defended ''

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'' against criticism from Norwegian historians. He married Ella Caroline Hinrichsen and secondly from 1917 Martha Marie

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(b. 1876 i Christiania), daughter of

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(1846–1931) and Birgitte Halvordine Schou (1848–1923). A painting of him by Count Preben Knuth (1937) and a miniature by Svend Rønne (1920) exist.

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