He was born in Elsinore as a son of goldsmith Lars Amberg, a Norwegian immigrant to Denmark.
He was a brother of educator Herman Amberg.
He was helped by his brother as well as Jacob Baden,[1] and the volumes were published in 1787, 1797 and 1810.
[2] Amberg held other jobs besides making the dictionary; from 1795 to 1800 he was a controller at the Norwegian postal office in Copenhagen.
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