Christian Klingberg

Christian Klingberg (16 December 1765 – 9 February 1821) was a Danish Supreme Court attorney and chief legal officer of the Danish Asiatic Company.

Early life and education Klingberg was born on 16 December 1765 in Copenhagen, the son of lottery inspector-general Jacob Klingberg (1719–82) and Karen Lund (1733–1806). He graduated from Frederiksborg Latin School in 1783 and earned a law degree (cand.jur.) from the University of Copenhagen in 1787.

Career Christian Klingberg's signature on the title page of a volume of A.S. Ørsted's Nyt Juridisk Arkiv (7th volume, 1814). He was a lawyer at the Hof- og Stadsret from 1791 and became a Supreme Court Attorney in 1792. This was within Denmark–Norway. He was in addition chief legal officer of the Danish Asia Company 1812–19 and briefly served as director of the Bank of Denmark in 1818. In 1813, he was designated as Supreme Court justice but never used this appointment.