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JOHAN LUDVIG See also:HEIBERG (1791-186o)
, Danish poet and critic, son of the See also:political writer See also:Peter Andreas See also:Heiberg (17587
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1841), and of the famous novelist, afterwards the Baroness Gyllembourg-Ehrensvard, was See also:born at See also:Copenhagen on the 14th of See also:December 1791
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In 'Soo his See also:father was exiled and settled in See also:Paris, where he was employed in the See also:French See also:foreign See also:office, retiring in 1817 with a See also:pension
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His political and satirical writings continued to exercise See also:great See also:influence over his See also:fellow-countrymen
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Johan Ludvig Heiberg was taken by K
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L
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Rahbek and his wife into their See also:house at Bakkehuset
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He was educated at the university of Copenhagen, and his first publication, entitled The See also:Theatre for See also:Marionettes (1814), included two romantic dramas
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This was followed by See also:Christmas Jokes and New See also:Year's Tricks
(1816), The See also:Initiation of See also:Psyche (1817), and The Prophecy of See also:Hebrew and later of See also:philosophy
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In 1659 he was called to Steinfurt to fill the See also:chair of dogmatics and ecclesiastical See also:history, and in the same year he became See also:doctor of See also:theology of See also:Heidelberg
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In 166o he revisited See also:Switzerland; and, after marrying, he travelled in the following year to See also:
Two years later he succeeded J
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H
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See also:Hottinger (162o–1667) in the chair of theology, which he occupied till his See also:death on the 18th of See also:January 1698, having declined an invitation in 1669 to succeed J
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Cocceius at See also:Leiden, as well as a See also:call to See also:Groningen
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See also:Heidegger was the See also:principal author of the See also:Formula Consensus Helvetica in 1675,which was designed to unite the Swiss Reformed churches, but had an opposite effect
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W
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Gass describes him as the most notable of the Swiss theologians of the See also:time
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His writings are largely controversial, though without being See also:bitter, and are in great See also:part levelled against the See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also: H . Hottinger (1667) and J . L . See also:Fabricius (1698) . His autobiography appeared in 1698, under the See also:title Historia vitae J . H . Heideggeri . See the articles in See also:Herzog-Hauck's Realencyklopadie and the Allgemeine deutsche Biographic; and cf . W . Gass, Geschichte der protestantischen Dogmatik, ii . 353 if . Tycho See also:Brahe, a See also:satire on the eccentricities of the Romantic writers, especially on the sentimentality of See also:Ingemann .
These See also:works attracted See also:attention at a time when See also:Baggesen, See also:Ohlenschlager and Ingemann possessed the popular See also:ear, and were understood at once to be the opening of a great career
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In 1817 Heiberg took his degree, and in 1819 went abroad with a See also: In 1831 he married the actress Johann See also:Louise Paetges (1812–1890), herself the author of some popular vaudevilles . Heiberg's scathing satires, however, made him very unpopular; and this antagonism reached its height when, in 1845, he published his malicious little drama of The See also:Nut Crackers . Nevertheless he became in 1847 director of the national theatre . He filled the post for seven years, working with great zeal and conscientiousness, but was forced by intrigues from without to resign it in 1854 . Heiberg died at Bonderup, near Ringsted, on the 25th of See also:August 186o . His influence upon See also:taste and See also:critical See also:opinion was greater than that of any writer of his time, and can only be compared with that of See also:Holberg in the 18th See also:century . Most of the poets of the Romantic See also:movement in See also:Denmark were very See also:grave and serious; Heiberg added the See also:element of humour, elegance and See also:irony . He had the See also:genius of See also:good taste, and his witty and delicate productions stand almost unique in the literature of his See also:country . The poetical works of Heiberg were collected, in 11 vols., in 1861–1862, and his See also:prose writings (11 vols.) in the same year . The last volume of his prose works contains some fragments of autobiography . See also G . See also:Brandes, Essays (1889) . For the See also:elder Heiberg see monographs by Thaarup (1883) and by Schwanenflugel (1891) . |
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