Christen Aagaard
Christen Lauritsen Aagaard (27 or 28 January 1616, in Viborg, Denmark – 5 February 1664, in Ribe) was a Danish poet. He studied from 1635 to 1639 in Copenhagen. Since 1647 he was professor of poetry at the University of Copenhagen.
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Christen Aagaard
- Born
- 1616 · Viborg.
- Died
- 1664 · Ribe.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Denmark
- Occupation
- poet · priest
- Languages
- Danish · Latin
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Christen Lauritsen Aagaard (27 or 28 January 1616, in Viborg, Denmark – 5 February 1664, in Ribe) was a Danish poet. He studied from 1635 to 1639 in Copenhagen. Since 1647 he was professor of poetry at the University of Copenhagen.
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In 1651 he became rector and in 1658 lecturer in theology at Ribe, in Jutland and also preacher at Vester-Vedsted. Among other Latin poems, he wrote Threni Hyperborei [Lamentations of the North], published, in folio, in 1648, on the death of Christian IV, King of Denmark. Several of his pieces are inserted in the first volume of Rostgaard's Deliciae Poëtarum Danorum (Copenhagen 1693).
• Laurus cimbrica, poema heroicum de Victoria Christiani IV adversum classem Sueco-Batavam die 16 maj 1664 (Copenhagen 1644) • De Homagio Frederici III, Daniae et Norvegiae regis (Copenhagen 1660)
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1616
Christen Aagaard was born in 1616 at Viborg.
1664
Christen Aagaard died in 1664 at Ribe.
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