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by) COXE’S TRAVELS IN DENMARK,
was the greateft benefactor. Under that monarch the univerfity was newly modelled,
and feveral reculations e(tablifhed, which were calculated for the encouragement and dif-
fufion of learning. It has.a confiderable fund; the profeflors have liberal falaries, and
many ftudents are inftructed gratis.
The Royal Academy of Sciences * owes its inftitution to the zeal of fix literati,
whom Chriftian VI. in 1742, ordered to arrange his cabinet of medals. hefe perfons,
occafionally meeting for that purpofe, extended their defigns; aflociated others who
were eminent in feveral branches of fcience, and forming a literary fociety, employed
themfelves in examining and explaining the hiftory and antiquities of their country.
The Count of Holftein warmly patronifed the fociety, and at his recommendation
Chriftian VI. took it under his protection, called it the Royal Academy of Sciences,
endowed it with a fund, and ordered the members to join to their former purfuits, na-
tural hiftory, phyfics, and mathematics. In confequence of the royal favour, the
members engaged with frefh zeal in their purfuits ; and the academy publifhed many
volumes of tranfaétions in the Danifh language, fome of which have been tranflated into
Latin.
About the fame period a fociety for the improvement of northern hiftory and lan.
guages was inftituted by a few perfons, at the head of whom was Langebek, fince
greatly diftinguifhed for his hiftorical publications. Thefe perfons contributed to a col-
lection of manufcripts, books, coins, and other literary curiofities ; and even advanced
afum of money to fupport the expence of the eftablifhment. Many new members
being admitted, Chriftian VI. with his ufual zeal for letters, conftituted it, in 1746, a
Royal Society, and afligned an apartment in the palace of Charlottenburgh for the place
of meeting. This fociety has proved itfelf not unworthy of the royal proteétion ;
having given to the world feveral publications, containing hiftorical details, titles, do-
cuments, diplomas, rare manufcripts, and charts, which tend to throw confiderable
light on the annals of Denmark.
Befide the univerfities of Copenhagen and Kiel, there is an academy at Soroe, two
gymnafia at Odenfee and Altona, and a feminary for Laplanders at Berghen in Nor-
way. ‘There are various Latin fchools maintained at the expence of the crown ; nine-
teen in Denmark Proper, four in Norway, eleven in Schlefwick, fixteen in Hoiftein,
and twoin Iceland. ‘The largeft fchools have a rector, or upper-matter, a correcfor, or
lower-mafter, and two or three college /chole, or afliftants: the fmalleft have only a
rector. ‘The falaries of the malters vary from 6ol. to 20ol. a year. Each parifh is.
alfo provided with two or three fchools for the Danifh tongue: where children are in-
ftruéted in reading, writing, and arithmetic. Thefe country fchool-mafters have in
general a falary of about 1 21. per annum, a houfe, and a few other advantages.
I muft alfo mention two fchools at Copenhagen for the children of the nobility and
gentry, who are unable to bear the expence of a liberal education ; one for boys, and
the other for females. The fchool for boys is under the dire&tion of Profeffor Tref-
chow, Chaplain of ‘the garrifon-church at Copenhagen, a gentleman of confiderable
erudition, who, confidering it as an att of charity, receives no recompence for his
trouble. An infpeétor has 6ol. per annum. ‘The day {cholars pay only 61. a year, and
the boarders 2ol.: they learn hiftory, geography, and arithmetic, are inftruéted in
* Lettres fur le Dannemark, vol. ii. p. 53. The Count of Hollftein was the firft prefident; and the
fix perfons who firft formed the defign, were John Gram, Joachim Frederic Ramus, Chriftian Louis
Scheid, Mare Woldikey, Eric Pontopidan, and Bernhard Moelman. See Scripta a Soc. Haf, Edita.
Vol. i.
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