When Hans Bentsen was born on 24 June 1732, in Ammendrup, Allerslev, Bårse, Præstø, Denmark, his father, Bendt Knudsen, was 32 and his mother, Anne Marie Bentsdatter, was 21. He married Bodil Petersdatter on 23 October 1759, in Allerslev, Bårse, Præstø, Denmark. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died in April 1805, in his hometown, at the age of 72, and was buried in Allerslev, Bårse, Præstø, Denmark.
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Meyercrones Stiftelse was founded by the widow of Henning de Meyercrone after he had served as Danish envoy in France. Christiane Meyercrone, Henning's widow, managed the property until her death in 1738. Her niece became the new manager of the foundation and arranged for its charter to be written in 1830. The original, small building was replaced by a larger building in 1933.
The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters is a non-governmental science Academy founded in 1742 for the purpose of advancements of science in Denmark.
The Old City Hall was built in 1762 and served as the city hall until 1912. the Hall was modelled after the City Hall that was destroyed in the Copenhagen Fire in 1795. Today the building is used only for ceremonial and representative purposes.
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Bent, Per. German Kurt, Otto.
Danish, Norwegian, and North German: patronymic from the personal name Bengt, Ben(d)t, short forms of Benedikt (see Benedict ). In North America, this surname is also an altered form of Danish variant Bendtsen and possibly also of Norwegian and Danish Bengtsen. Compare Bensen 2, Benson 3, and Bentson .
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