Icelandic scholar Grímur Jónsson Thorkelin made the first transcriptions of the manuscript in 1786 and published the results in 1815, working under a historical research commission of the Danish government.

Key contributions were made by the Danish scholars Rasmus Rask and Karl Verner and the German scholar Jacob Grimm.

Tycho later wrote that when he was around age two, his uncle, Danish nobleman Jørgen Thygesen Brahe, " without the knowledge of my parents took me away with him while I was in my earliest youth to become a scholar ".

Tawfiq Canaan and Dr Ditlef Nielsen, a Danish scholar, excavated and surveyed Petra.

Ada Sara Adler ( 1878 – 1946 ) was a Danish classical scholar and librarian.

: The Danish scholar Vilhelm Thomsen ( 1842-1927 ) was one of the greatest linguists of all times.

Folksong scholar Märta Ramsten states that folksong refrains containing enumerations of herbs — spices and medical herbs — occur in many languages, including Swedish, Danish, German, and English ( and also in the " regional language " of Lombardy, Italy: " ravanei, remulass, barbabietul e spinass " i. e. " radish, horseradish, beet and spinach ").

Danish scholar Arne Søby Christensen on the other hand claims that the Getica was an entirely fabricated account, and that the origin of the Goths in the book is a construction based on popular Greek and Roman myths as well as a misinterpretation of recorded names from Northern Europe.

The latter meaning has given the interpretation " tributary king " and one English scholar speculates about a tributary relationship to the Danish king Sweyn Forkbeard, who was his stepfather.

A critical edition of the Dhammapada was produced by Danish scholar Viggo Fausbøll in 1855, becoming the first Pali text to receive this kind of examination by the European academic community.

An early editor of the magazine was R. P. Keigwin, the English cricketer and Danish scholar.

Some commentators ( like Georg Brandes, the Danish Shakespeare scholar of the late 19th century ) have attempted to reconcile these contradictory claims by arguing that the play was composed originally around 1600 – 02, but heavily revised shortly before its 1609 printing.

Georg Morris Cohen Brandes ( 4 February 1842 – 19 February 1927 ) was a Danish critic and scholar who had great influence on Scandinavian and European literature from the 1870s through the turn of the 20th century.

Rasmus ( Christian ) Rask () ( 22 November 1787, Brændekilde on the Danish island of Funen – 14 November 1832, Copenhagen ) was a Danish scholar and philologist.

* Friedrich Münter ( 1761-1830 ), Danish bishop and scholar

The concept of lexicographic information costs was first proposed by the Danish scholar and metalexicographer Sandro Nielsen ( see below ).

Censorship issues in Drunken Angel are covered extensively in the supplemental documentary to the Criterion Collection DVD by Danish film scholar Lars-Martin Sorensen, entitled Kurosawa and the Censors, available on The Criterion Collection DVD release of the film.

* Martin of Dacia ( 1220 – 1304 ), Danish scholar

* Jacob Emden, 18th century Danish / German scholar

Because of this the Danish scholar Bugge tried, in 1896, to connect him to the Skjöldung Helgi.

Martin of Dacia ( Martinus Dacus, Martinus de Dacia, Martin de Dacie, Morten Mogensen, 1220-1304 ) was a Danish scholar, master of arts and theology at the University of Paris around 1250 – 88, and the author of Modi significandi, an influential treatise on grammar.

* Rasmus Christian Rask ( 1787-1832 ), Danish scholar and philologist

Joakim Garff ( born 1960 ) is a Danish theologian and Søren Kierkegaard scholar at Søren Kierkegaard Research Center at the University of Copenhagen.

* 1918 – Gabriel Axel, Danish director

Absalon or Axel ( – 21 March 1201 ) was a Danish archbishop and statesman, who was the Bishop of Roskilde from 1158 to 1192 and Archbishop of Lund from 1178 until his death.

* 1928 – Axel Strøbye, Danish actor ( d. 2005 )

** Gabriel Axel, Danish film director

** Axel Axgil, Danish LGBT rights activist ( d. 2011 )

Osmund, Osburh, Oslac ( Danish Axel ), Oswald, Oswiu, Oswin, Osbert, Oswudu, Osred, Oslaf, Offa ( from Osfrid ), Oesa ( i-mutated from a * Ós-i -), Oscar ( Anglo-Saxon form of Ásgeir ).

In 1923, two Danish engineers, Axel Petersen and Arnold Poulsen, patented a system in which sound was recorded on a separate filmstrip running parallel with the image reel.

Danish folklorist Axel Olrik ( photographer unknown ).

Axel Olrik ( 1864, Copenhagen-1917 ) was a Danish folklorist, and a pioneer in the methodical study of oral narrative.

Axel is a Scandinavian ( Icelandic, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish ) and German male given name, which is also used in parts of the English-speaking world.

* The Danish archbishop Absalon ( 1128-1201 ) is also known as Axel of Lund.

He studied painting under Axel Jørgensen and Einar Nielsen at the Royal Danish Academy of Art.

* Jakob Axel Nielsen ( born 1967 ), Danish lawyer and politician

** Axel Borup-Jørgensen, Danish composer

Babette's Feast () is a 1987 Danish film directed by Gabriel Axel.

However, Axel wanted Danish, Swedish and French actors to play the roles for the sake of authenticity.

Axel was supported by the Danish Film Institute's consultant, Clæs Kastholm Hansen, who also agreed the cast should include international stars.

The crater is named jointly after the Danish astronomer Axel Nielsen ( 1902-1970 ) and the Danish – American physicist Harald Herborg Nielsen ( 1903-1973 ).

The substance has been declared illegal by health minister Jakob Axel Nielsen, following recommendations from the Danish Health Ministry.

Gabriel Axel ( born 18 April 1918 ) is an Oscar winning Danish film director, actor, writer and producer, best known for the Oscar-winning Babette's Feast ( 1987 ), which he wrote and directed.

Born in Århus, Denmark, on April 18, 1918, Axel spent most of his childhood in France, and returned to Denmark to train as an actor at the Royal Danish Theatre.

In 1988, Gabriel Axel won an Academy Award for his Danish feature film Babette's Feast, an adaptation of Isak Dinesen's novel of the same name.

In 1957 Axel Dangaard Olsen of Seattle, U. S. A., asked the Danish yacht designer Knud Olsen to prepare drawings for a light and fast single-handed sailing dinghy based on conventional plywood construction.