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Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger (1779–1850)
Oehlenschläger or Öhlenschläger, Adam Gottlob (ėl’en-shlāg”er). A leading Danish poet; born near Copenhagen, Nov. 14, 1779; died on Jan. 20, 1850. His works comprise: ‘Poems’ (1803); ‘First Song of the Edda’; ‘A Journey to Langeland’; ‘The Life of Christ Annually Repeated in Nature’; ‘Earl Hakon’; ‘Thor’s Journey to Jötunheim’; ‘Palnatoke’; ‘Axel and Valborg’; ‘The Little Shepherd Boy’; and several tragedies, including ‘Socrates’ and ‘Hamlet.’ (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).