Ludvig Bødtcher

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Ludvig Adolph Bødtcher (April 22, 1793 – October 1, 1874) was a Danish lyric poet.

He was born in Copenhagen. Thanks to an inheritance, he lived in Italy from 1824 for about ten years, where he acted as confidante 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.

[edit] Selected works

  • Digte, ældre og nyere (Poems old and new) (1856). Republished in 1870 with 14 additional poems.

[edit] References

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopædia.

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