Anders Christensen Bording (21 January 1619 – 24 May 1677) was a

Danish Danish may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the country of Denmark People * A national or citizen of Denmark, also called a "Dane," see Demographics of Denmark * Culture of Denmark * Danish people or Danes, people with a Danish a ...

poet and

journalist A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalis ...

. He was born in

Ribe Ribe () is a town in south-west Jutland, Denmark, with a population of 8,257 (2022). It is the seat of the Diocese of Ribe covering southwestern Jutland. Until 1 January 2007, Ribe was the seat of both a surrounding municipality and county. It ...

. He is notable for his epigrams,

ballad A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads derive from the medieval French ''chanson balladée'' or ''ballade'', which were originally "dance songs". Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and ...

s, occasional poems and epistles, as well as for publishing the first Danish newspaper, the monthly ''

Den Danske Mercurius ''Den danske Mercurius'' was a Danish newspaper, first published on 1 August 1666, by Anders Bording. He founded his versified newspaper, published in Danish with the title ''Den Danske Mercurius''. The newspaper was published on the order of t ...

'', written in verse entirely by him.

External links

Biography of Anders Bording from the Archive of Danish Literature

1619 births People from Ribe 1677 deaths Danish male poets 17th-century Danish poets 17th-century male writers 17th-century journalists Occasional poets {{denmark-journalist-stub