Hans Christian Amberg, sometimes H. C. Amberg (8 April 1749 – 30 January 1815) was a Danish lexicographer. 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 Herman Amberg (22 December 1834 – 12 April 1902) was a Danish musician and composer. A pupil of J.P.E. Hartmann and Anton Ree, in 1855 he set up in Viborg as music teacher and also worked as a singing teacher at the Latin School for 25 years. ...

. He is known for his three-volume dictionary in German-Danish and Danish-German. He was helped by his brother as well as

Jacob Baden Jacob Baden (4 May 1735 – 5 July 1804) was a Danish philologist, pedagogue, and critic. He was a professor of rhetoric and Latin at the University of Copenhagen in 1779. He was the first person to lecture on Danish grammar at the university be ...

, and the volumes were published in 1787, 1797 and 1810.List of publications
in BIBSYS Amberg held other jobs besides making the dictionary; from 1795 to 1800 he was a controller at the Norwegian postal office in Copenhagen. He also wrote minor texts, among others in the magazine ''Det nyeste Magazin af Fortællinger'' between 1779 and 1781. He died in January 1815.

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