Emil Aarestrup

Emil Aarestrup was born in Copenhagen in 1800, the son of a customs inspector at the Østerport. His parents separated in 1807 and died the following year; an orphan, he grew up in Copenhagen. A medical student in 1819, qualified in 1827, he married his cousin Caroline Aagaard the same year; he had had an illegitimate daughter in 1822. A doctor in Nysted for eleven years, then in Sakskøbing from 1838, he became in 1849 physician to the diocese of Odense, where he died in 1856.

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• PoetryDigteEmil Aarestrup · 1838not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain