Humboldt the Old (Fr: Humbaud le Vieux, Latin: Humbaldus Vetulus ou Veteris) Lord of Beaucamps, was a knight descendent of the "le Vieux d’Yvetot" a Normand family of French-Danish origins.
Veteris' name was never linked with that of any of the Classical gods, but he was invoked with another local god, Mogons, at Netherby.
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Pontoppidan became successively pastor in Hillerød and castle preacher in Frederiksborg (1734), Danish court preacher at Copenhagen (1735), professor extraordinary of theology at the University (1738), and a member of the mission board (1740), meanwhile writing his Everriculum fermenti veteris (1736) and Böse Sprichwörter (1739).
In 1774 he published two volumes De cantu et musica sacra; in 1777, Monumenta veteris liturgiae Alemannicae; and in 1784, in three volumes, Scriptores ecclesiastici de musica sacra, a collection of the principal writers on church music from the 3rd century till the invention of printing.