Johan Ludvig Heiberg (poet)

Johan Ludvig Heiberg

Johan Ludvig Heiberg (14 December 1791 – 25 August 1860), Danish poet, playwright, literary critic, literary historian son of the political writer Peter Andreas Heiberg (1758–1841), and of the novelist, afterwards the Baroness Gyllembourg-Ehrensvärd, was born in Copenhagen.[1] He promoted Hegelian philosophy and introduced vaudeville to Denmark.[2]

  1. ^ Chisholm 1911, p. 208.
  2. ^ Encyclopædia Britannica. Johan Ludvig Heiberg.