Fabritius de Tengnagel (noble family) explained

Surname:	Fabritius de Tengnagel
Type:	Noble family
Coat Of Arms:	Coatofarms-Fabritius de Tengnagel.jpg
Country:	Denmark
Founded:	4 September 1778

The Fabritius de Tengnagel family is a Danish and Norwegian noble family of German origin.^[1]

History

The family originated from Johannes Fabritius (1620–71) of Brandenburg, Prussia. The genus immigrated to Denmark with his son Herman Fabritius (1667-1729). Conrad Alexander Fabritius (1731 - 1805) and Michael Fabritius (1739 - 1815), as well as all legitimate children of their then-deceased father Michael Fabritius (1697-1746), were on 4 September 1778 ennobled by letters patent under the name Fabritius de Tengnagel.^[2]

Notable family members

• Frederik Michael Ernst Fabritius de Tengnagel (1781 - 1849), landscape painter
• Conrad Fabritius de Tengnagel
• Signe Frigg Fabritius de Tengnagel Tscherning Jønsson
• Ronja Frigg Fabritius de Tengnagel Tscherning Jønsson
• Felix Frigg Fabritius de Tengnagel Tscherning Jønsson
• Amy Jeyasri Frigg Fabritius de Tengnagel Tscherning Jønsson Larsen

See also

• Danish nobility
• Norwegian nobility

Literature

• Dansk Adelskalender (1878): Fabritius de Tengnagel at skislekt.no/adel.
• A. Thiset og P.L. Wittrup: Nyt dansk Adelslexikon, Copenhagen 1904
• Sven Tito Achen: Danske adelsvåbener, Copenhagen 1973

Notes and References

1. Web site: Fabritius – Fabritius-Tengnagel. Store norske leksikon . Jon Gunnar Arntzen. July 1, 2017.
2. Web site: Conrad Fabritius de Tengnagel. Dansk Biografisk Leksikon. July 1, 2017.