Oehlenschläger, Adam
Oehlenschläger, Adam (1779–1850)tends to be considered the Danish Wordsworth. His writings reveal his fascination with folklore, and in 1816 he translated Märchen by Musäus, Fouqué, Hoffmann, and Chamisso into Danish, thus stimulating such writers as Ingemann and Andersen. His plays Aladdin (1806) and Aly og Gulhyndy (Aly and Gulhyndy, 1813) are romantic adaptations from The Arabian Nights , in which, true to the tradition of the multi‐phased magic tale, Oehlenschläger takes his protagonists through a process of Bildung.
Niels Ingwersen
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