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Sophie Ørsted
Sophie Wilhelmine Bertha Ørsted (née Oehlenschläger; 16 July 1782 – 9 February 1818) was a Danish socialite and muse. Brought up in a literary environment in Copenhagen, she was the sister of writer Adam Oehlenschläger (1779–1850) and was married to jurist Anders Sandøe Ørsted (1778-1860). She became an inspiration for others, including the poet Jens Baggesen (1764–1826). She died of abdominal complications when she was only 35. Biography Born in Frederiksberg Palace in the Copenhagen district of Frederiksberg, Sophie Wilhelmine Bertha Oehlenschläger was the daughter of the palace keeper and organist (1748–1827), who stemmed from the Duchy of Schleswig, and Martha Marie Hansen (1745–1800). She was brought up in the palace with her elder brother, the writer Adam Oehlenschläger who introduced romanticism into Danish literature. The two siblings benefited from the cultural interests of their father and the rather strict religious influence of their mother, par ...
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Hans Christian Ørsted
Hans Christian Ørsted (; 14 August 1777 – 9 March 1851), sometimes Transliteration, transliterated as Oersted ( ), was a Danish chemist and physicist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields. This phenomenon is known as Oersted's law. He also discovered aluminium, a chemical element. A leader of the Danish Golden Age, Ørsted was a close friend of Hans Christian Andersen and the brother of politician and jurist Anders Sandøe Ørsted, who served as Prime Minister of Denmark from 1853 to 1854. Early life and studies Ørsted was born in Rudkøbing in 1777. As a young boy he developed an interest in science while working for his father, who was a pharmacist in the Rudkøbing Pharmacy, town's pharmacy. He and his brother Anders Sandøe Ørsted, Anders received most of their early education through self-study at home, going to Copenhagen in 1793 to take entrance exams for the University of Copenhagen, where both brothers excelled academically. By 1796, Ørst ...
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