Frederic Louis Norden was a Danish

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 naval captain and explorer.

Also known as Frederick, Frederik, Friderick, Ludwig, Ludvig and Lewis, the name used on the first publication of his famous Voyage d'Egypte et de Nubie

Voyage d'Egypte et de Nubie

Voyage d'Egypte et de Nubie records Frederic Louis Norden's extensive documentation and drawings of his voyage though Egypt in 1737-1738...

(Copenhagen, 1755) is Frederic Louis Norden. His name is often shortened F. L. Norden.

Norden made a voyage through Egypt

Egypt

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 all the way down to Sudan

Sudan

Sudan , officially the Republic of the Sudan , is a country in North Africa, sometimes considered part of the Middle East politically. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, South Sudan to the south, the Central African Republic to the...

 in 1737–1738, on the request of King Christian VI of Denmark

Christian VI of Denmark

Christian VI was King of Denmark and Norway from 1730 to 1746.He was the son of King Frederick IV of Denmark and Norway and Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow. He married Sophia Magdalen of Brandenburg-Kulmbach and fathered Frederick V.-The reign and personality of Christian VI:To posterity Christian...

. Norden made abundant notes, observations and drawings of everything around him, including people, pharaonic monuments, architecture, installations, maps etc., all of which was published in the posthumous Voyage d'Egypte et de Nubie.

He became a Fellow of the Royal Society

Royal Society

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of London January 8, 1741, where his name was registered as Frederic Lewis Norden.