Brøndsted

Brøndsted, PETER OLUF, a Danish archaeologist, born near Horsens, in Jutland, 1780, studied at Copenhagen, where in 1813, after some years spent in travels and excavations in Italy and Greece, he was appointed extraordinary professor of Philology. Returning to Rome in 1818 as agent of the Danish government, he was enabled to carry on his researches for several years. He died rector of the Copenhagen University in 1842. Brøndsted's principal work is his Reisen und Untersuchungen in Griechenland (Stuttgart, 1826-30), of which only 2 vols. were published.