Peter Oluf Brøndsted

He attended Horsens Latin School whose principal Olaf Worm was an important influence on his interests.

[1] As he began to arrange and prepare for publication the vast materials he had collected during his travels, he found that Copenhagen did not afford him the desired facilities.

Following the death of his wife in 1818, he exchanged his professorship for the office of Danish ambassador in the Papal State and took up residence in Rome.

[1] In 1826 he went to London, chiefly with a view to studying the Elgin Marbles and other remains of antiquity in the British Museum, and became acquainted with the principal archaeologists of England.

From 1828 to 1832 he resided in Paris, to superintend the publication of his Travels, and then returned to Copenhagen on being appointed director of the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals (Den Kongelige Mønt- og Medaillesamling).

[5] His principal work was the Travels and Archaeological Researches in Greece (in German and French, 1826–1830), of which only two volumes were published, dealing with the island of Ceos and the metopes of the Parthenon.