Ludvig Bødtcher, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ludvig Bødtcher

Danish writer

Date of Birth: 22-Apr-1793

Place of Birth: Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

Date of Death: 01-Oct-1874

Profession: writer, poet

Nationality: Denmark

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

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