Ludvig Bødtcher

Ludvig Adolph Bødtcher (April 22, 1793 – October 1, 1874) was a Danish lyric poet.

Ludvig Bødtcher, portrait by Christian Albrecht Jensen from 1836. Thorvaldsens Museum

He was born and died in Copenhagen. Thanks to an inheritance, he lived in Italy from 1824 for about ten years, where he acted as confidante and guide to the Danish writers Hans Christian Andersen 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.
gollark: ++remind "18:05:00 next Thursday" mock lyricly
gollark: Oops. That time does not seem right.
gollark: ++remind 6d17h also mock lyricly
gollark: How is this game theory? Your guesses aren't really competing with other people.
gollark: GTech™ closed timelike curve data says no you didn't.

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