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Born November 9, 1542 • Vejle • Denmark
Died February 13, 1616 (aged 73) • Ribe • Denmark
Notable Works “Et hundrede udvalde danske viser” • “Gesta Danorum”
Subjects Of Study folk song
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Sophus Claussen
Danish poet
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Christiern Pedersen
Danish humanist
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Tom Kristensen
Danish author and critic
Hans Adolf Brorson, engraving by M. Bernigeroth.
Hans Adolf Brorson
Danish clergyman and author
Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian poet
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
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Maximus Planudes
Byzantine scholar and theologian
F.W. Ritschl, engraving
F.W. Ritschl
German scholar
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Louis Zukofsky
American poet
Jens Peter Jacobsen, detail of an oil painting by E. Josephson, 1879; in the Nationalhistoriske Museum at Frederiksborg, Denmark.
Jens Peter Jacobsen
Danish author
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Klaus Rifbjerg
Danish writer
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Villy Sørensen
Danish writer and critic
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Jacob Paludan
Danish author
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Charlotte Endymion Porter
American editor
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Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
Norwegian author
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Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist
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Wilhelm Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist
Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus, shown in dark robes and cap, writing with a quill at a desk, after Quinten Massijs, oil on panel, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Erasmus
Dutch humanist
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English author
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Martial
Roman poet