Christen Lauritsen Aagaard (27 or 28 January 1616, in
Viborg,
Denmark
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– 5 February 1664, in
Ribe
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), was a Danish
poet
A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...
. He studied from 1635 to 1639 in
Copenhagen
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. Since 1647 he was professor of poetry at the University of Copenhagen. In 1651 he became rector and in 1658 lecturer in theology at
Ribe
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, in
Jutland
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and also preacher at Vester-Vedsted. Among other
Latin
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poems, he wrote ''Threni Hyperborei,''
amentations of the Northpublished, in folio, in 1648, on the death of
Christian IV
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,
King of Denmark
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. Several of his pieces are inserted in the first volume of Rostgaard's ''Deliciae Poëtarum Danorum'' (Copenhagen 1693).
Further works
* ''Laurus cimbrica, poema heroicum de Victoria Christiani IV adversum classem Sueco-Batavam die 16 maj 1664'' (Copenhagen 1644)
* ''De Homagio Frederici III, Daniae et Norvegiae regis'' (Copenhagen 1660)
See also
*
Niels Aagaard Niels Lauritsen Aagaard (1612— abt. 22 January 1657), was probably the brother of the poet Christen Aagaard, was professor at Sorø Academy, in Denmark, where he also occupied the office of librarian. He died in 1657, at the age of forty-five ...
, his brother
References
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1616 births
1664 deaths
Danish male poets
University of Copenhagen faculty
People from Viborg Municipality
17th-century Danish poets
17th-century male writers