| Peter Johansen Neergaard | |
| Birth Date: | 1769 7, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Tølløsegård, Denmark |
| Death Place: | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Occupation: | Landowner |
Peter Johansen (de) Neergaard (24 July 1769 – 9 January 1835) was a Danish landowner. He was one of the largest landowners of his time in Denmark. His father was ennobled under the name de Neergaard in 1780.
Neergaard was born at Tølløsegård, the eldest son of Johan Thomas Neergaard and Anna Joachimine Qvistgaard (1750–1829). His father was ennobled by letters patent in 1780.[1] Neergaard graduated in law from the University of Copenhagen in 1790 .
Peter Johansen Neergaard was the owner of the estates Ringsted Abbey, Kærup (1793–1804), Merløsegaard (1795–1796), Gyldenholm (1810–1812), Førslev (1803–1830), Gunderslevholm (1803–1835), Kastrup, Fuglebjerggaard and Fodbygård (1803), Det Plessenske fideikommis (1803), Gerdrup (1814–1831), Lyngbygård (1814–1831), Fuglsang (1819–1835), Priorskov (1819–1835), Nørlund, Torstedlund (1820–1826) and Albæk (1812).[2]
He was a co-founder of the Store Larsbjørnsstræde Sugar Refinery in 1803.[3]
He managed to get through the crisis of the 1820s with most of his estates and divided them between his sons from 1830 to 1835, He was a land commissioner in Sorø County. He was appointed in 1793, in 1803 and in 1819.[2]
Neergaard married twice. His first wife was Elisabeth Jacobine Vilhelmine Mourier (1778–1813), a daughter of supercargo Pierre Paul Ferdinand Mourier (1746–1836) and Elisabeth Cornelia Courtonne (1744–83). They married on 25 August 1794 in the French Reformed Church in Copenhagen.Three children survived childhood:
Neergaard's second wife was Anna Henriette Elisabeth Schow (1781–1859), a daughter of Christen Schow (1738–1806) and Caroline Marie Suhr (1754–1824) and the widow of captain and Peter Christoffer Qvistgaard of Gerdrup and Lyngbygård, 1775–1807). They had four children: