BROENDSTED, PETER OLUF Danish archaeologist and traveller, was born at Fruering in Jutland. After a visit to Italy, he spent three years (1810-13) in research and excavation in Greece; later (182o-21), while envoy at the papal court, he visited Sicily and the Ionian Islands for the same purpose. In 1832 he returned to Copenhagen as director of the museum; he was made rector in 1842 and died in the same year. His principal work was the Travels and Archaeological Researches in Greece (in German and French, 1826-30), of which only two volumes were published, dealing with the island of Ceos and the metopes of the Parthenon. A volume of his letters (Memoirer og Breve) was published at Copenhagen in 1926.