(Frederic Lewis), an ingenious traveller and naval officer in the Danish service, was born at Glückstadt in Holstein in the year 1708. He was well skilled in mathematics, ship-building, and especially in architecture; and in 1732 obtained a pension to enable him to travel for the purpose of studying the construction of ships, particularly the galleys and other rowing vessels used in the Mediterranean. He spent near three years in Italy; and Christian VI, being desirous of obtaining a circumstantial account of Egypt, Mr Norden at Florence received an order to extend his travels to that country. How he acquitted himself in this commission, appears from his Travels into Egypt and Nubia, printed at Copenhagen in folio, 1756; and which were soon after translated into English by Dr Peter Templeman. In the war between England and Spain, Mr Norden, then a captain in the Danish navy, attended Count Ulric Adolphus, a sea captain, to England; and they went out volunteers under Sir John Norris, and afterwards under Sir Chaloner Ogle. During his stay in London, Mr Norden was made a fellow of the royal society, and gave the public drawings of some ruins and colossal statues at Thebes in Egypt, with an account of the same in a letter to the Royal Society, 1741. His health at this time was declining; and taking a tour to France, he died at Paris in 1742.