Ludvig Bødtcher
Illustration — Ludvig Bødtcher, portrait by Christian Albrecht Jensen from 1836. Thorvaldsens Museum Ludvig Adolph Bødtcher (22 April 17931 October 1874) was a Danish lyric poet. He was born and died in Copenhagen.
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Ludvig Bødtcher
Christian Albrecht Jensen · Thorvaldsens Museum · Public domain
- Full name
- Ludvig Adolph Bødtcher.
- Born
- 1793. · Copenhagen.
- Died
- 1874. · Copenhagen.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Denmark.
- Occupation
- poet and writer.
- Honours
- Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog.
- Languages
- Danish.
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Illustration — Ludvig Bødtcher, portrait by Christian Albrecht Jensen from 1836. Thorvaldsens Museum Ludvig Adolph Bødtcher (22 April 17931 October 1874) was a Danish lyric poet. He was born and died in Copenhagen.
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Thanks to an inheritance, he lived in Italy from 1824 for about ten years, where he acted as confidant and guide to the Danish writers Hans Christian Andersen and Henrik Hertz. His most famous poem Mødet med Bacchus, 1846 (”The Meeting with Bacchus”) also deals with Antique mythology. Normally classified an aesthetic like Christian Winther and Emil Aarestrup he is today little known to most Danes. Some sources give his name in the German form Ludwig Bödtcher.
• Digte, ældre og nyere (Poems old and new) (1856). Republished in 1870 with 14 additional poems.
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Ludvig Bødtcher is recorded as a citizen of Kingdom of Denmark. Recorded with the occupation writer. Recorded at birth as Ludvig Adolph Bødtcher.
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1793
Ludvig Bødtcher was born in 1793 at Copenhagen.
1874
Ludvig Bødtcher died in 1874 at Copenhagen.
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The authorities additionally record the headings Ludvig Bodtcher and Ludvig Bödtcher.
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