Poul Skibsted

Poul Frederik (Povel Friderich) Skibsted (23 May 1753 – 21 September 1812) was a Danish Supreme Court attorney and public prosecutor general.

He acted as prosecutor in the high-profile trials against Malthe Conrad Bruun and Peter Andreas Heiberg, which both resulted in them being exiled.

He acted as prosecutor in the high-profile trials against Malthe Conrad Bruun (for Aristokraternes Catechismus) and Peter Andreas Heiberg, which both resulted in them being exiled in 1800.

On 5 May 1779 in Trinitatis Church, he married Christina Magdalena de Fine Olivarius (1756–1817), daughter of Kurantbanken bookkeeper Arnoldus de Fine Olivarius (1718–1804) and Pauline Susanne Marie Baumann (1726–99).

Their third daughter Marie Margrethe Skibsted (1787–1878) married the naval officer Hans Christian Sneedorff.