Jens Kamp

Jens Kamp, born 11 February 1845 at Kamp-Hovedgård in Stadil parish in Jutland; died 23 May 1900 in Copenhagen, was a Danish folklorist.
Kamp attended elementary school and later Staby folk high school. In 1867, he obtained a school teacher's degree from Blågård. As a teacher at various folk high schools in years 1868–76 he collected the material for Danske Folkeminder. His later collections, gathered as a teacher at Bogø were published in two volumes of Danske Folkeæventyr. His surviving papers, including a manuscript begun for a second collection of Danske Folkeminder, can be found at the Dansk Folkemindesamling at Royal Library of Denmark. From 1891 he lived in Copenhagen as a retired teacher.