Den danske Spectator

{{Short description|Danish language weekly literary review in Copenhagen (1744–1745)}}

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Den danske Spectator ({{langx|da|The Danish Spectator}}) was one of the earliest magazines published in Danish language. It existed between 1744 and 1745 and was established by Jørgen Riis.{{cite journal|author=Sven H. Rossel|title=The Medieval Ballad in Danish Literature until 1800|journal=Scandinavian Studies|date=Autumn 1977|volume=49|issue=4|page=424|jstor=40917738}}{{cite book|editor=Ellen Krefting|volume=33|display-editors=et. al.|author=Ellen Krefting|title=Eighteenth-Century Periodicals as Agents of Change: Perspectives on Northern Enlightenment|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YZj8CQAAQBAJ&pg=P156|pages=156, 162|location=Leiden; Boston, MA|chapter=The Urge to Write: Spectator Journalists Negotiating Freedom of the Press in Denmark-Norway|publisher=Brill

|year=2015|isbn=978-90-04-29311-3}} The headquarters of the weekly magazine was in Copenhagen. It was a literary review,{{cite book|author=Aina Nøding|editor1=Paula Rabinowitz|title=Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature|year=2014|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford; New York|doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.293|chapter=Periodical Fiction in Denmark and Norway before 1900|chapter-url=https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.293|isbn=978-0-19-020109-8}} but it frequently contained writings on censorship, freedom of speech and motivations to write.