Frederik Paludan-Müller

Frederik Paludan-Müller (born February 7, 1809, Kerteminde, on the Island of Fyn, Denmark—died December 28, 1876, Copenhagen) was a Danish poet who achieved early acclaim in the Danish late-Romantic movement (the so-called romantisme, which was marked by skepticism about Romanticism’s idealistic philosophy) for his Byronic epic Danserinden (1833; “The Danseuse”). The son of a bishop, Paludan-Müller was educated at the University of Copenhagen law school. Later, after he was rescued from a mental and religious...