Herman Amberg (educator), Date of Birth, Date of Death

Herman Amberg (educator)

Danish-Norwegian educator

Date of Birth: 20-May-1754

Date of Death: 23-Dec-1837

Profession: teacher

Nationality: Norway, Denmark

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Herman Amberg (20 May 1754 – 23 December 1837) was a Danish-Norwegian educator. He was born in Elsinore as a son of goldsmith Lars Amberg, a Norwegian immigrant to Denmark.
He was a brother of lexicographer Hans Christian Amberg.
Herman Amberg was hired at Christiania Cathedral School in 1782, and became headmaster in 1799.
From 1806 to 1825 he was the headmaster of Christianssand Cathedral School.
Amberg often wrote in Latin, and helped with Jacob Baden's Danish-Latin dictionary as well as with his brother's Danish-German dictionary.He was married to Marthe Bonsach from 1798 to her death in October 1835.
They had no children.
Herman Amberg died in December 1837.