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A Danish poet; born at Kjerteminde in the island of Fuynen, Feb. 7, 1809; died at Copenhagen, Dec. 28, 1876. He wrote: "Love at Court" (1832), a romantic drama; the spirited Byronesque poem "The Dancers" (1833); "Cupid and Psyche" (1834); "Trochees and Iambics" (1837); "Poems" (2 vols., 1836-38); the dramatic poems "Venus" (1841), "Tithon" (1844); the great satirical poem "The Man Adam" (3 vols., 1841-49), his masterpiece; "Aeronauts and Atheists" (1853), a versified defense of Christianity; "Death of Abel"; "Ahasuerus"; "Benedict of Nursia" (1854-62). His chief prose writings are "The Fountain of Youth" (1865), and "Story of Ivar Lykke" (3 vols., 1866-73). One of his latest poems is "Adonis", in which he returns to mythological themes.