Ludvig Adolph Bødtcher (22 April 17931 October 1874) was a

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lyric

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. He was born and died in

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. Thanks to an inheritance, he lived in

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from 1824 for about ten years, where he acted as confidant and guide to the Danish writers

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and

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. His most famous poem ''Mødet med Bacchus'', 1846 (”The Meeting with Bacchus”) also deals with Antique mythology. Normally classified an aesthetic like

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and Emil Aarestrup he is today little known to most Danes. Some sources give his name in the German form Ludwig Bödtcher.

Selected works

*''Digte, ældre og nyere'' (''Poems old and new'') (1856). Republished in 1870 with 14 additional poems.

References

''Henrik Hertz and Hans Christian Andersen''
by Niels Oxenvad {{DEFAULTSORT:Bodtcher, Ludvig 1793 births 1874 deaths Danish male poets 19th-century Danish poets 19th-century male writers