Dorthea Rasmusdatter

Brief Life History of Dorthea

Dorthea Rasmusdatter was born about 1702, in Agri, Kalø, Denmark. She married Peder Jensen Hoeg in 1736, in Agri, Kalø, Denmark. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 28 August 1757, in Agri, Mols, Randers, Denmark, at the age of 56.

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Family Time Line

Peder Jensen Hoeg
1717–1787
Dorthea Rasmusdatter
1702–1757
Marriage: 1736
Jochum Pedersen Høgh
1736–1809
Mette Pedersdatter
1739–1773
Rasmus Pedersen Hoeg
1742–

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World Events (6)

1701 · Oldest Naval Academy in the World

The Royal Danish Naval Academy was established in 1701 to educate then commission all officers into the Royal Danish Navy. It is the oldest, still-existing, officers' academy in the world.

1713 · Royal Danish Military Academy

The Royal Danish Military Academy educated and commissioned all officers for the Royal Danish Army. The Military Academy function was initiated in 1713 by request of King Frederick IV on inspiration from the Naval Academy.

1729

Greenland becomes Danish province.

Name Meaning

form of a post-classical Greek name, from dōron ‘gift’ + theos ‘god’ (the same elements as in Theodora , but in reverse order). The masculine form Dorotheus was borne by several early Christian saints, the feminine by only two minor ones, but only the girl's name has survived. In modern use in the English-speaking world it represents either a 19th-century Latinization of Dorothy or a learned reborrowing.

Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.

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