Christian Jurgensen Thomsen was born in Copenhagen in 1788 into a wealthy merchant family. As a young man … See more

In 1816 Thomsen was selected to curate Danish Royal Commission for the Collection and Preservation of Antiquities' first exhibition. As the post was unsalaried, Thomsen's independent means and his experience … See more

Together with Niels Laurits Høyen, Thomsen had great influence on the arts in Copenhagen. He was active as a board in the influential Kunstforeningen (Art Society) in the 1830s when its member numbers and position pe… See more

• Thomsen, C. J. (1836) Ledetraad til Nordisk Oldkundskab (Guideline to Nordic Antiquity), published in German in 1837 and in English in 1848. See more

• Conn, Steven (2004). History's Shadow: Native Americans and Historical Consciousness in the Nineteenth Century, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Gjerløff, Anne Katrine. (1999). "Syn for sagn: Dans… See more