When Peder Christensen was born on 24 December 1795, in Assendrup, Vedslet, Voer, Skanderborg, Denmark, his father, Christen Nielsen, was 40 and his mother, Karen Andersdatter, was 33. He married Maren Kirstine Christensdatter on 9 July 1824, in Torrild, Hads, Århus, Denmark. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He died in 1868, in Torrild, Hads, Århus, Denmark, at the age of 73, and was buried in Tørrild, Vejle, Denmark.
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Odense Teater is Denmark's second oldest theater and one of the country's three main theaters. It is where Hans Christian Andersen started as a writer and is where The Pillars of Society was first performed.
1799-territory was merged into the Århus county. Skanderborg as a county ceased to exist.
Danmarks Nationalbank is the central bank of the Kingdom of Denmark and serves as an independent and credible institution that issues the krone, the Danish currency. The bank undertakes all functions related to the management of the Danish central-government debt.
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Erik, Nels, Niels, Lars, Bent, Anders, Thor, Jorgen, Nils, Einer, Viggo, Folmer.
Danish, Norwegian, and North German: patronymic from the personal name Christen . In North America, this surname is also an altered form of the especially Danish and Norwegian variant Kristensen . Compare Christenson and Christianson .
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