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

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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

Hans Christian Andersen Hans Christian Andersen ( , ; 2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogue (literature), travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales. Andersen's fai ...

and Henrik Hertz. His most famous poem ''Mødet med Bacchus'', 1846 (”The Meeting with Bacchus”) also deals with Antique mythology. Normally classified an aesthetic like Christian Winther 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 Danish male writers