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Born October 6, 1742 • Norway
Died December 29, 1785 (aged 43) • Copenhagen • Denmark

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Ludvig Holberg, Baron Holberg
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Peter Andreas Heiberg
Danish author
Poet John Dryden
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Pietro Aretino
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Francisco de Sá de Miranda
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Karl Kraus
Austrian writer
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, engraving by Georg Friedrich Schmidt after a painting by Jacques-André-Joseph Aved
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
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Johannes Ewald, engraving by Johan Frederik Clemens, 1779.
Johannes Ewald
Danish poet
Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger, oil painting by F.C. Groger, 1815; in the National Historical Museum at Frederiksborg Castle, Hillerød, Den.
Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger
Danish author
Hauch, Johannes Carsten
Johannes Carsten Hauch
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Drachmann
Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann
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Leif Panduro
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Klaus Rifbjerg
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Gustav Wied
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
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Life-sized plaster sculpture Seated Voltaire by Jean-Antoine Houdon shows Voltaire draped in a robe, seated with a thoughtful expression and a ribbon crown, against a dark background.
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French dramatist Jean Racine
Jean Racine
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Lord Byron
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Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin
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