Erik Pontoppidan
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"Pontoppidan" redirects here. For the famous realist writer and Nobel Laureate, see Henrik Pontoppidan.
Erik Ludvigsen Pontoppidan (24 August 1698 – 20 December 1764) was a Danish author, a Lutheran bishop of the Church of Norway, a historian, and an antiquarian. His Catechism of the Church of Denmark heavily influenced Danish and Norwegian religious thought and practice for roughly the next 200 years after its 1737 publication.