Christian Fleischer, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Christian Fleischer

Danish civil servant

Date of Birth: 10-Aug-1712

Date of Death: 21-Mar-1768

Profession: writer, linguist

Nationality: Denmark

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Christian Fleischer

  • 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.
  • The family had roots in Elbing, East Prussia.He took education from 1730 to 1733, and was then hired as a private tutor for Count Ulrik Adolf Danneskjold-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 etat 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, and a bird collection of Fleischer's helped Brünnich write his Ornithologia Borealis in 1764.He died in March 1768.

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