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.

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.

The Danish scholar Axel Olrik ( 1903 ) has proposed a solution to why the sources vary.

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.

They were deciphered in 1893 by the Danish linguist Vilhelm Thomsen in a scholarly race with his rival, the Germano-Russian linguist Wilhelm Radloff.

Three 20th century Danish authors have become Nobel Prize laureates in Literature: Karl Adolph Gjellerup and Henrik Pontoppidan ( joint recipients in 1917 ) and Johannes Vilhelm Jensen ( awarded 1944 ).

Two further programmes followed on European painters ; Michael Palin and the Ladies Who Loved Matisse ( 2004 ) and Michael Palin and the Mystery of Hammershøi ( 2005 ), about the French artist Henri Matisse and Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi respectively.

These Orkhon inscriptions () were published by Vasily Radlov and deciphered by the Danish philologist Vilhelm Thomsen in 1893.

* E. Denison Ross, The Tonyukuk Inscription, Being a Translation of Professor Vilhelm Thomsen's final Danish Rendering, Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies, University of London, 1930.

* February 13 – Vilhelm Hammershøi, Danish painter ( b. 1864 )

* January 20 – Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1950 )

* February 19 – Jacob Vilhelm Rode Heiberg, Danish civil servant ( d. 1946 )

* May 15 – Vilhelm Hammershøi, Danish painter ( d. 1916 )

Vilhelm Ludwig Peter Thomsen ( January 25, 1842 – May 12, 1927 ) was a Danish linguist and Turkologist.

The four-act Saul og David ( Saul and David ), written in 1902 to a libretto by Einar Christiansen tells the Biblical story of Saul's jealousy of the young David while Maskarade ( Masquerade ) is a comic opera in three acts written in 1906 to a Danish libretto by Vilhelm Andersen, based on the comedy by Ludvig Holberg.

* November 25-Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish author

* January 20-Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish writer, Nobel prize winner ( died 1950 )

When the young Danish prince Vilhelm Georg was elected king in 1863, the title offered to him by the Greek National Assembly was not " King of Greece ", the title of his deposed predecessor, King Otto ; but rather " King of the Hellenes ".

The magnificent Grundtvig's Church in the Copenhagen district of Bispebjerg was designed by Danish architect Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint as a memorial to Grundtvig.

Hans Vilhelm ( H. V .) Kaalund 27 June 1818 – 27 April 1885 was a Danish lyric poet.

The scholarship was created and endowed by Danish industrialist Vilhelm Brandt ( 1854 – 1921 ) in honor of his wife, Tagea ( 1847 – 1882 ).

In 1950 Krag resigned from Parliament partially due to a conflict with Vilhelm Buhl and H. C. Hansen and, in order to become more fluent in the English language and see more of the world, requested a position at the Danish embassy in the United States.

* Vilhelm ( Danish, Norwegian, Romanian, Swedish )

Vilhelm Lauritzen ( 9 September 1894 – 22 December 1984 ) was a leading Danish modernist architect, founder of the still active architectural firm Vilhelm Lauritzen Arkitekter.

He made his debut for the Danish national team on May 5, 1910, as the youngest Danish national team player at 18 years and 131 days of age, breaking Vilhelm Wolfhagen's age record from 1908.

* The Danish composer Jens Vilhelm Pedersen, known as Fuzzy