Author · Denmark
Adam Oehlenschläger
Died in 1850
Adam Oehlenschläger was born in 1779 in Vesterbro, at the gates of Copenhagen, the son of an organist who became steward of Frederiksberg Palace, where he grew up. After an attempted career as an actor, he enrolled at the university in 1800. In 1802, a sixteen-hour conversation with the philosopher Henrich Steffens, newly returned from Germany, turned him towards poetry. From 1805 to 1809 he travelled in Germany, France and Italy and met Goethe in Weimar. Professor of aesthetics in 1810, he wrote the words of the national anthem in 1819; Tegnér crowned him with laurels in Lund in 1829. He died in Copenhagen in 1850.
In the catalogue 1
- TheatreAladdin, or The Wonderful LampAladdin, eller Den forunderlige LampeAdam Oehlenschläger · 1805LiteraturePublic domain