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JOHANNES CARSTEN See also:HAUCH (1790-1872)
, Danish poet, was See also:born of Danish parents residing at Frederikshald in See also:Norway, on the 12th of May 1790
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In 1802 he lost his See also:mother, and in 1803 returned with his See also:father to See also:Denmark
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In 1807 he fought as a volunteer against the See also:English invasion
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He entered the university of See also:Copenhagen in r8o8, and in 1821 took his See also:doctor's degree
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He became the friend and See also:associate of See also:Steffens and Oehlenschldger, warmly adopting the romantic views about See also:poetry and See also:philosophy
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His first two dramatic poems, The See also:Journey to Ginistan and The See also:Power of See also:Fancy, appeared in 1816, and were followed by a lyrical See also:drama, Rosaura (1817); but these See also:works attracted little or no See also:attention
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See also:Hauch therefore gave up all See also:hope of fame as a poet, and resigned himself entirely to the study of See also:science
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He took his doctor's degree in See also:zoology in 1821, and went abroad to pursue his studies
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At See also:Nice he had an See also:accident which obliged him to submit to the amputation of one See also:foot
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He returned to literature, See also:publishing a dramatized See also:fairy See also:tale, the Hamadryad, and the tragedies of Bajazet, Tiberius, See also:Gregory VII., in 1828-1829, The See also:Death of See also:
Hauch then turned to novel-See also:writing, and published in See also:succession five romances—Vilhelm See also:Zabern (1834); The Alchemist (1836); A See also:Polish See also:Family (1839); The See also:castle on the See also:Rhine (1845); and See also:Robert See also:Fulton (18J3)
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In 1842 he collected his shorter Poems
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In 1846 he waS appointed See also:professor of the Scandinavian See also:languages in See also:Kiel, but returned to Copenhagen when the See also:war See also:broke out in 1848
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About this See also:time his dramatic See also:talent was at its height, and he produced one admirable tragedy after "another; among these may be mentioned Svend Gratlze (1841); The Sisters at Kinnekulle (1849); See also:Marshal Stig (1850); See also:Honour Lost and Won (1851); and Tycho See also:Brahe's Youth (1852)
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From 1858 to 186o Bauch was director of the Danish See also:National See also:Theatre; he produced three more tragedies—The See also: See G . See also:Brandes, " Carsten Ifauch " (1873) in DanskeDigtere (1877) ; F . R6nning, J . C . Rauch (189o), and in Dansk Biografssk-See also:Lexicon, (vol. vii . Copenhagen, 1893) . Winch's novels were collected (1873–18774) and his dramatic works (3 vols., and ed., 1852–1859) . |
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