University of Copenhagen

University of Copenhagen   (University)
Motto	Coelestem adspicit lucem (Latin)
Formation	1537
Headquarters	Copenhagen, Denmark
Type	Public university
Central university for the Danish state

The University of Copenhagen (UCPH) (Københavns Universitet) is a public research university in Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in Scandinavia, and ranks as one of the top universities in the Nordic countries and Europe.

Integrity Initiative

Henrik O Breitenbauch, of the University of Copenhagen, is/was a member of the Integrity Initiative's Nordic Cluster.

History

Its establishment sanctioned by Pope Sixtus IV, the University of Copenhagen was founded by Christian I of Denmark as a Catholic teaching institution with a predominantly theological focus. Up until the 18th century, the university was primarily concerned with educating clergymen. Through various reforms in the 18th and 19th century, the University of Copenhagen was transformed into a modern, secular university, with science and the humanities replacing theology as the main subjects studied and taught.

The University of Copenhagen consists of six different faculties, with teaching taking place in its four distinct campuses, all situated in Copenhagen. The university operates 36 different departments and 122 separate research centres in Copenhagen, as well as a number of museums and botanical gardens in and outside the Danish capital. The University of Copenhagen also owns and operates multiple research stations around Denmark, with two additional ones located in Greenland. Additionally, The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences and the public hospitals of the Capital and Zealand Region of Denmark constitute the conglomerate Copenhagen University Hospital.

A number of prominent scientific theories and schools of thought are namesakes of the University of Copenhagen. The famous Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum mechanics was conceived at the Niels Bohr Institute, which is part of the university.<refhttps://www.nbi.ku.dk/english/www/institute/History/The_Copenhagen_Interpretation/</ref> The Department of Political Science birthed the Copenhagen School of Security Studies, which is also named after the university. Others include the Copenhagen School of Theology and the Copenhagen School of Linguistics.

As of October 2020, 39 Nobel laureates and 1 Turing Award laureate have been affiliated with the University of Copenhagen as students, alumni or faculty. Alumni include one president of the United Nations General Assembly and at least 24 prime ministers of Denmark. The University of Copenhagen fosters entrepreneurship, and between 5 and 6 start-ups are founded by students, alumni or faculty members each week.

Notable alumni (chronological order)

• Tycho Brahe (1546–1601), Danish astronomer, first scientific documentation of supernovas, mentor of Johannes Kepler.
• Thomas Fincke (1561–1656), Danish mathematician and physicist.
• Caspar Bartholin (1585–1629), professor in medicine and theology. Author of textbooks on anatomy and the discoverer of the workings of the olfactory nerve.
• Olaus Wormius (1588–1655), Danish physician and antiquarian.
• Thomas Bartholin (1616–1680), discoverer of the lymphatic system.
• Rasmus Bartholin (1625–1698), professor in geometry and medicine. Discovered birefringence, but was unable to give a scientific explanation.
• Thomas Hansen Kingo (1634–1703), Danish bishop and poet.
• Nicholas Steno (1638–1696), a pioneer in anatomy and geology.
• Ole Rømer (1644–1710), Danish astronomer, made the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.
• Peder Horrebow (1679–1764), Danish astronomer and member of Académie des Sciences.
• Ludvig Holberg (1684–1754), Danish-Norwegian writer and playwright.
• Morten Thrane Brunnich (1737–1827), Danish zoologist.
• Caspar Wessel (1745–1818), mathematician.
• Martin Vahl (1749–1804), Danish-Norwegian botanist and zoologist.
• Hans Christian Ørsted (1777–1851), Danish physicist and chemist, discovered electromagnetism.
• Anders Sandøe Ørsted (1778–1860), Danish lawyer and prime minister of Denmark (1853–1854).
• Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger (1779–1850), poet, author of lyrics of the Danish national anthem Der er et yndigt land.
• N. F. S. Grundtvig (1783–1872), Danish writer, poet, philosopher and priest.
• Christopher Hansteen (1784–1873), Norwegian astronomer and physicist.
• Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1791–1860), Danish poet and critic.
• Magnús Eiríksson (1806–1881), Icelandic theologian.
• Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855), Danish theologian and philosopher, the father of existentialism.
• Anders Sandøe Ørsted (1816–1872), professor of botany 1851–1862.
• Hinrich Johannes Rink (1819–1893), Danish geologist, and founder of the first Greenlandic language newspaper.
• Peter Ludvig Panum (1820–1885), Danish physiologist and pathologist, the Panum Building in Copenhagen is named in his honor.
• Hans Schjellerup (1827–1887), Danish astronomer.
• Carl Lange (1834–1900), Danish physician.
• Thorvald N. Thiele (1838–1910), Danish astronomer, actuary and mathematician.
• Julius Petersen (1839–1910), Danish mathematician.
• Eugenius Warming (1841–1924), Danish botanist and founding figure of ecology.
• Georg Brandes (1842–1927), Danish writer and critic.
• Vilhelm Thomsen (1842–1927), Danish linguist.
• Harald Høffding (1843–1931), Danish philosopher theologian psychologist.
• Hans Christian Gram (1853–1938), Danish bacteriologist, inventor of Gram staining.
• Christian Bohr (1855–1911), Danish physician who described Bohr effect.
• Wilhelm Johannsen (1857–1927), Danish botanist, first coined the word gene in its modern usage.
• Niels Ryberg Finsen (1860–1904), Nobel laureate in medicine (1903).
• Otto Jespersen (1860–1943), Danish linguist, co-founder of the International Phonetic Association.
• Kirstine Meyer (1861–1941), Danish physicist.
• Hannes Hafstein (1861–1922), Icelandic politician and poet.
• Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger (1867–1928), Nobel laureate in medicine (1926).
• Holger Pedersen (1867–1953), Danish linguist.
• S. P. L. Sørensen (1868–1939), Danish chemist who introduced the concept of pH.
• Martin Knudsen (1871–1949), Danish physicist.
• August Krogh (1874–1949), Nobel laureate in medicine (1920).
• Holger Scheuermann (1877–1960), Danish surgeon after whom Scheuermann's disease is named.
• Kirstine Smith (1878–1939), Danish statistician credited with creation of optimal design of experiments.
• Benjamin Christensen (1879–1959), Danish film director, screenwriter and actor.
• Niels Bohr (1885–1962), contributed to development of the atomic model and quantum mechanics. Director at the university's Institute of Theoretical Physics. Nobel laureate in physics (1922).
• Øjvind Winge (1886–1964), Danish biologist.
• Harald Bohr (1887–1951), Danish Olympic silver medalist football player and mathematician; brother of Niels Bohr.
• Inge Lehmann (1888–1993), Danish seismologist discovering the Earth's inner core.
• Jakob Nielsen (1890–1959), Danish mathematician.
• Julie Vinter Hansen (1890–1960), Danish astronomer.
• Oskar Klein (1894–1977), Swedish theoretical physicist.
• Henrik Dam (1895–1976), Nobel laureate in medicine (1943).
• Sir Ove Arup (1896–1988), Anglo-Danish structural engineer.
• Alf Ross (1899–1979), Danish legal philosopher.
• Louis Hjelmslev (1899–1965), Danish linguist, founder of Copenhagen School.
• Anton Frederik Bruun (1901-1961), Danish oceanographer.
• Georg Rasch (1901–1980), Danish mathematician, statistician, and psychometrician.
• Knud Ejler Løgstrup (1905–1981), Danish philosopher and theologian. Pastor at Sandager-Holevad 1936–1943. Professor at University of Aarhus 1943–1975.
• Piet Hein (1905–1996), Danish mathematician, inventor and poet.
• Bengt Strömgren (1908–1987), Danish astronomer and astrophysicist.
• Hilde Levi (1909–2003), German-Danish physicist.
• Niels Kaj Jerne (1911–1994), Nobel laureate in medicine (1984).
• Preben von Magnus (1912-1973), Danish virologist who gave name to the Von Magnus phenomenon.
• Jens Otto Krag (1914–1978), prime minister of Denmark (1962–1968, 1971–1972).
• Poul Hartling (1914–2000), prime minister of Denmark (1973–1975) and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (1978-1985), Nobel Peace Prize laureate on behalf of UNHCR(1981).
• Bjørn Aage Ibsen (1915-2007), Anesthetist and founder of intensive-care medicine
• Poul Bjørndahl Astrup (1915-2000), Danish clinical chemist, inventor of blood gas analyzer.
• Jens Christian Skou (born 1918), Nobel laureate in chemistry (1997) for his discovery of Na+,K+-ATPase.
• Hans H. Ørberg (1920–2010), linguist and scholar.
• Aage Bohr (1922–2009), professor in nuclear physics and director of the Niels Bohr Institute at the university. Nobel laureate in physics (1975).
• Halfdan T. Mahler (born 1923), Director-General of World Health Organization(1973–1988).
• Ólafía Einarsdóttir (1924-2017), first person from Iceland to earn a degree in archaeology
• Ben Roy Mottelson (born 1926), American-born Danish nuclear physicist, Nobel laureate in physics (1975).
• Peter Naur (1928-2016), computer scientist, Turing Award in 2005.
• Poul Schlüter (born 1929), prime minister of Denmark (1982–1993).
• Vigdís Finnbogadóttir (born 1930), the 4th President of Iceland (1980–1996).
• Ozer Schild (1930-2006), Danish-born Israeli academic, President of the University of Haifa and President of the College of Judea and Samaria ("Ariel College").
• Jørgen Rischel (1934–2007), Danish linguist who analyzed Greenlandic and Mon-Khmer languages.
• Per Kirkeby (born 1938), Danish painter and sculptor.
• Per Pinstrup-Andersen (born 1939), Danish economist, 2001 World Food Prize laureate.
• Søren Johansen (born 1939), Danish econometrician.
• Lasse Hessel (born 1940), inventor of female condom.
• Anders Boserup (1940 – 1990), co-founder of the Danish Institute for Peace and Conflict Research and the Nordic Peace Foundation.
• Aage B. Sørensen (1941–2001), Danish sociologist.
• Holger Bech Nielsen (born 1941), Danish physicist, one of three creators of string theory.
• Jørgen Haugan (born 1941), Doctorate in Philosophy (1977); Norwegian author and lecturer.
• Poul Nyrup Rasmussen (born 1943), prime minister of Denmark (1993–2001).
• Niels Peter Lemche (born 1945), biblical scholar, founder of Copenhagen School.
• Mogens Lykketoft (born 1946), Danish politician, the 70th President of the United Nations General Assembly(2015-2016).
• Halldór Ásgrímsson (born 1947), prime minister of Iceland (2004–2006).
• Uffe Haagerup (born 1949), Danish mathematician.
• Peter Høeg (born 1957), Danish fiction writer, won international acclaim with Smilla's Sense of Snow.
• Morten Frost (born 1958), Danish world-class badminton player and coach.
• Mads Tofte (born 1959), computer scientist, vice chancellor of IT University of Copenhagen.
• Ole Wæver (born 1960), scholar of International Relations, one of exponents of Copenhagen School.
• Steve Scully (born 1960), American host, senior producer, and political editor of the C-SPAN network's Washington Journal studied at the University of Copenhagen as part of his master's program at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
• Corinna Cortes (born 1961), computer scientist.
• Lars Løkke Rasmussen (born 1964), prime minister of Denmark (2009–2011, 2015–2019).
• Lars Mikkelsen (born 1964), Danish actor.
• Bjørn Lomborg (born 1965), Danish economist, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist.
• Helle Thorning-Schmidt (born 1966), prime minister of Denmark (2011–2015).
• Marie-Louise Nosch (born 1970), archaeologist; Professor in the university's Saxo Institute
• Eskild Ebbesen (born 1972), Danish world-class lightweight rower.
• Høgni Reistrup (born 1984), MA in Media Studies 2010 from the University of Copenhagen, co-writer of the book Exit Føroyar which created much debate in Denmark and the Faroe Islands about the decreasing population in the Faroe Islands.

 

Alumni on Wikispooks

Person	Born	Died	Nationality	Summary	Description
Bodil Nyboe Andersen	9 October 1940		Denmark	Central banker	Danish central banker who pushed for introduction of the euro. Daughter of Bilderberger Poul Nyboe Andersen and attended 3 Bilderberg meetings herself. Trilateral Commission.
Poul Nyboe Andersen	23 November 1913	5 November 2004	Denmark	Politician Economist	Danish economist and politician. Member of the Trilateral Commission. His daughter is former national bank director Bodil Nyboe Andersen.
Ida Auken	22 April 1978		Denmark	Politician	In a Marie Antoinette moment, she wrote for the World Economic Forum: "Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better".
Sucharit Bhakdi	1 November 1946		Thailand US German	Virologist Science/Science dissident COVID-19/Dissident	One of the first and most important dissidents against Covid.
Ritt Bjerregaard	19 May 1941	21 January 2023	Denmark	Politician	Double Bilderberg Danish politician. Georgetown Leadership Seminar, Trilateral Commission..
Stine Bosse	21 December 1960		Denmark	Executive	Single Bilderberg Danish businesswoman and later President of the European Movement in Denmark.
Henrik Breitenbauch				Academic	II connected Danish academic
Jeppe Christiansen	November 1959		Denmark	Businessperson	Danish financier, businessman
Henning Christophersen	8 November 1939	31 December 2016	Denmark	Politician	Danish politician. An early architect of the Single Market and the Euro. 3 Bilderbergs
Christian Dyvig	11 October 1964		Denmark	Lawyer Businessperson	Danish Bilderberger lawyer. Son of Peter Dyvig
Peter Dyvig	23 February 1934	January 2020	Denmark	Diplomat	Danish diplomat
Merete Eldrup	4 August 1963		Denmark	Editor	Danish corporate media CEO, wife of Bilderberg Steering Committee member Anders Eldrup
Uffe Ellemann-Jensen	1 November 1941		Denmark	Politician	Started more offensive military/soft power posture as Danish Foreign Minister. 8 Bilderbergs, candidate for NATO General-Secretary.
Lars Findsen	17 September 1964		Denmark	Spook	Head of the Danish Defence Intelligence service. Suspended in 2020 after spying on intelligence supervision board members, and withholding or lying about key information of other criminal activity.
Mette Frederiksen	9 November 1977		Denmark	Politician	Prime Minister of Denmark since June 2019. Attended the 2023 Bilderberg meeting after which speculation arose that she might be made NATO Secretary General
Lykke Friis	27 October 1969		Denmark	Politician	Former Danish minister for Climate and Energy, where she presided over the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference. Member of European Council on Foreign Relations and Trilateral Commission.
Peter Gøtzsche	26 November 1949		Denmark	Doctor Science/Dissident
Poul Hartling	14 August 1914	30 April 2000	Denmark	Politician	1969 Bilderberg. Prime Minister of Denmark in the 1970s.
Connie Hedegaard	15 October 1960		Denmark	Politician	Danish politician, multi-Bilderberger
Lars Hedegaard	19 September 1942			Author Journalist Historian	Danish historian, author and journalist
Erik Hoffmeyer	25 December 1924	21 August 2016	Denmark	Academic Central banker	Danish academic and central bank governor for 29 years who attended the 1982 Bilderberg
Eigil Jørgensen	February 1921	5 December 2014	Denmark	Diplomat Civil servant Deep state operative	Danish diplomat and deep state operative
Jens Kampmann	30 March 1937		Denmark	Politician Businessperson	Danish politician and son of former PM.
Ulrik Vestergaard Knudsen	14 February 1969		Denmark	Diplomat	Former Permanent Secretary (administrative leader) of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Became Deputy Secretary-General of the OECD in January 2019, and attended the Bilderberg for the first time the same year.
Hans Koch	1905	1987	Denmark		Danish Bilderberg bureaucrat. President of Executive Board of the Danish Atomic Energy Commission
Jens Krag	15 September 1914	22 June 1978	Denmark	Politician	Danish politician who attended 3 Bilderberg conferences, 2 of them as Prime Minster of Denmark. Supporter of Danish membership of NATO in 1949, then went to "see more of the world" at the Danish embassy in the United States. Brought the country into the EEC (later European Union) in 1972.
Martin Krasnik	22 June 1971		Denmark	Editor	Danish editor-in chief frequently accused of being a "spokesman for Israel". Attended Bilderberg/2022
Thorkil Kristensen	9 October 1899	26 June 1989	Denmark	Politician Academic	First Secretary-General of the OECD. 3 Bilderbergs
Bo Lidegaard	23 January 1958		Denmark	Journalist Spoook?	Danish editor and diplomat
Bjørn Lomborg	6 January 1965		Denmark	Academic Climate change/Dissident?	WEF YGL, WEF GLT. President of the Gates-funded think tank Copenhagen Consensus Center, which publishes glowing estimates of the efficiency of the Gates foundation.
Thomas Lund-Sørensen	1 October 1964		Denmark	Diplomat Spook	Danish diplomat and spook who later started working for Macro Advisory Partners. Marshall Memorial Fellow 1999.
Mogens Lykketoft	9 January 1946		Denmark	Diplomat Politician	Danish politician
Ellen Margrethe Løj	17 October 1948		Denmark	Diplomat	Danish diplomat. Chairman of the UNSC's Counter-Terrorism Committee, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for South Sudan
Jacob Mchangama	1978		Denmark	Lawyer	Danish lawyer who attended the 2012 Bilderberg
Søren Pind	20 November 1969		Denmark	Politician Lawyer	Attended the 2016 Bilderberg as Danish Minister of Justice
Lars Løkke Rasmussen	15 May 1964			Politician	Danish politician with a WEF AGM habit
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen	15 June 1943		Denmark	Politician	Danish politician who attended the 2010 Bilderberg
Steen Riisgaard	22 March 1951		Denmark	Biologist Businessperson	CEO of the Denmark-based biotech company Novozymes, the world’s largest producer of industrial enzymes. “Sugar will be the new oil”
Peter Schütze	30 October 1948		Denmark	Economist	Danish economist
Erik Seidenfaden	24 April 1910	13 April 1990	Denmark	Spook Editor	SOE-agent during World War 2, then influential editor.
Niels Thygesen	13 December 1934		Denmark	Academic	Danish academic, member of the Delors committee who attended the 1988 Bilderberg when he was member of the Executive Committee of the Trilateral Commission.
Margrethe Vestager	13 April 1968		Denmark	Politician	Danish Bilderberer appointed Executive Vice President of the European Commission for A Europe Fit for the Digital Age in December 2019
Lea Wermelin	10 May 1985		Denmark	Politician	Danish cabinet minister; WEF/Young Global Leaders 2021
Kurt Westergaard	13 July 1935	14 July 2021	Denmark	Artist	The Danish cartoonist involved in the 2005 Muhammad depiction controversy.

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