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was thegreateft benefador. Under that monarch the univerfity was newly modelled,and feveral regulations eftablifhed, which were calculated for the encouragement and dif*fufion of learning, It has a considerable fund ; theprofeffors have liberal iaiaries, andmany Undents are inllruded gratis.
The Royal Academy of Sciences * owes its inftitution to the zeal of fix literati,whom Chriftian VI. in 1742, ordered to arrange his cabinet of medals. Thefe perfons,occafionally meeting for that purpofe, extended their defigns; aflociated others whowere eminent in feveral branches of fcience, and forming a literary fociety, employedthemfeives in examining and explaining the hiftory and antiquities of their country.The Count of HoUtein warmly patronifed the fociety, and at his recommendationChriftian VI. took it under his protection, called it the Royal Academy of Sciences,endowed it with a fund, and ordered the members to join to their former purfuits, na-tural hiftory, phyftcs, and mathematics. In confequence of the royal favour, themembers engaged with frefn zeal in their puriuits 5 and the academy publifhed manyvolumes of tranfadions in the Danilh language, fome of which have been tranflated intoLatin .
About the fame period a fociety for the improvement of northern hiftory and lan-guages was inftituted by a few perfons, at the head of whom was Langebek, fincegreatly diftinguilhed for his hiftorical publications. Thefe perfons contributed to a col-lection of manufcripts, books, coins, and other literary curiofities ; and even advanceda fum of money to fupport the expence of the eftablilhment. Many new membersbeing admitted, ' Chriftian VI. with his ufual zeal for letters, conftituted it, in 1746, aRoyal Society , and affigned an apartment in the palace of Charlottenburgh for the placeof meeting. This fociety has proved itfelf not unworthy of the royal protection yhaving given to the world feveral publications, containing hiftorical details, titles, do-cuments, diplomas, rare manufcripts, and charts, which tend to throw confiderablelight on the annals of Denmark .
Befide the univerfities of Copenhagen and Kiel, there is an academy at Soroe, twogymnafia at Odenfee and Altona, and a ferninary for Laplanders at Berghen in Nor-way. There are various Latin fchools maintained at the expence of the crown ; nine-teen in Denmark Proper, four in Norway , eleven in Schleiwick, fixteen in Hoiftein,and two in Iceland .' The largeft fchools have a reflor, or upper-mafter, a corrector, orlower-mailer, and two or three colleges j,choice , or affiftants : the final left have only aredor. The falaries of the mailers vary from 60I. to 200I. a year. Each parifh isalfo provided with two or three fchools for the Danifh tongue : where children are in-truded in reading, writing, and arithmetic. r I hefe country fchool-mafters have ingeneral a falary of about 12I. per annum, a houfe, and a few other advantages.
I mud alfo mention two fchools at Copenhagen for the children of the nobility andgentry, who are unable to bear the expence of a liberal education 5 one for boys, andthe other for females. The fchool for boys is under the diredion of ProfeiTor Tref-chow, Chaplain of the garrifon-church at Copenhagen , a gentleman of confiderableerudition, who, confidering .it as an ad of charity, receives no recompence for histrouble. An infpedor has 6c-l. per annum. The day fcholars pay only 61. a year, andthe boarders 20I.: they learn hiftory, geography, and arithmetic, are inftruded in
* Lettres fur le Dannemark, vol. Ii. p, £3. The Count of Hoiftein was the firft prefident; and thefix peribns who firft formed the defign, were John Gram, Joachim Freddie Ramus, Chriftian LouisScheid, Mare Woldikey, Eric Pontopidan, and Bernhard Moelman. See Scripta a Soc. Haf, Edita.Vol. i.
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