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    Ludvig Holberg, Baron of Holberg (3 December 1684 – 28 January 1754) was a writer, essayist, philosopher, historian and playwright born in Bergen, Norway...
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    is named after the Danish-Norwegian writer and academic Ludvig Holberg (1684–1754). The Holberg Prize comes with a monetary award of 6 million Norwegian...
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  • 200th anniversary of the birth of Dano-Norwegian humanist playwright Ludvig Holberg (1684–1754). It exemplifies nineteenth-century music which makes use...
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  • American pathologist Ludvig Holberg, Danish-Norwegian writer and playwright Ludvig Holstein-Holsteinborg, Danish politician Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg,...
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  • father of Ludvig Ludvig Holberg (1684–1754), Norwegian-born Danish writer Mary Liz Holberg (born 1959), Minnesota politician Waldemar Holberg (1883–1927)...
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  • office in 1737. Røg and Ludvig Holberg attended Bergen Latin School at the same time. They met in Paris in 1715. Røg lent Holberg his royal travel passport...
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    Erasmus Montanus (category Plays by Ludvig Holberg)
    Denmark. Written by Ludvig Holberg in 1722, the script was first published in 1731 and performed in 1747. Today, it is among Holberg's most frequently performed...
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    theatre, Lille Grønnegade Theatre, was created and the great dramatist Ludvig Holberg (1684–1754) began his career. He established the College of Missions...
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    The Fidget (category Plays by Ludvig Holberg)
    The Fidget (Danish: Den stundesløse) is a satirical play published by Ludvig Holberg in 1723. It premiered at Lille Grønnegade Theatre in Copenhagen on 25...
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    short stories of Karen Blixen (penname Isak Dinesen), the plays of Ludvig Holberg, and the dense, aphoristic poetry of Piet Hein, have earned international...
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    stories of Karen Blixen, penname Isak Dinesen, (1885–1962), the plays of Ludvig Holberg (1684–1754), modern authors such as Herman Bang and Nobel laureate Henrik...
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    Jammersminde (Remembered Woes) by Leonora Christina of the Blue Tower. Ludvig Holberg (1684–1754), influenced by the ideas of the Enlightenment and Humanism...
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    Maskarade (category Ludvig Holberg)
    Nielsen to a Danish libretto by Vilhelm Andersen, based on the comedy by Ludvig Holberg. It was first performed on 11 November 1906 at Royal Danish Theatre...
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    The statue of Ludvig Holberg by Theobald Stein, together with Herman Wilhelm Bissen's statue of Adam Oehlenschläger, flanks the main entrance to the Royal...
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  • influenced by Scandinavian folktales and inspired by Baroque poets such as Ludvig Holberg and the hymn-writer Thomas Kingo. Bergtatt, the first part of what has...
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    Jeppe on the Hill (category Plays by Ludvig Holberg)
    (Danish: Jeppe på bjerget) is a Danish comedy by the Norwegian playwright Ludvig Holberg, written during the time of the Dano-Norwegian dual monarchy. The play...
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  • (play), a 1719 play by Charles Johnson Mascarade, a 1724 comedy play by Ludvig Holberg Masquerade (play), an 1835 Russian play by Mikhail Lermontov Masquerade...
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  • Ludvig (1886). Ludvig Holberg. Kristiania: Grøndahl & Søns Bogtrykkeri. p. 9. Retrieved February 27, 2018. Carl Paul Caspari (1864) "Biskop Ludvig Hanssøn...
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    critic and publisher. He is remembered especially for his editions of Ludvig Holberg and Adam Oehlenschläger. Liebenberg, son of Lutheran pastor and royal...
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    world.[citation needed] Western Norway is famous for many writers. Ludvig Holberg was one of them. He was born in Bergen, but he moved to Copenhagen when...
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    ISBN 978-87-88802-29-0. Bregnsbo, p. 349. Ludvig Holberg (1749). "Epistola CCCLXXVII.". Ludvig Holbergs Epistler. Vol. Tomus IV. Copenhagen. pp. 281–82...
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    well-known works are the Niels Juel statue at Holmens Kanal and the Ludvig Holberg statue outside the Royal Danish Theatre, both in Copenhagen. Theobald...
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  • Simonsen, comedian, actor. Dorothe Engelbretsdotter (1634–1713) author. Ludvig Holberg (1684–1754), playwright. Nicoline Thaulow (1807–1885), author Johan...
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    Niels Klim's Underground Travels (category Ludvig Holberg)
    science-fiction/fantasy novel written by the Norwegian-Danish author Ludvig Holberg. His only novel, it describes a utopian society from an outsider's point...
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    political opponents or inferiors. The eighteenth-century chronicler Ludvig Holberg claimed that when dining at his court, Frederik would frequently announce...
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    Sorø Academy (category Ludvig Holberg)
    during the Danish Golden Age. Danish-Norwegian writer and academian Ludvig Holberg bequested most of his fortune to re-establishing the academy in 1750...
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    (1585–1629 in Sorø) a physician, scientist and theologian. Ludvig Holberg, Baron of Holberg (1684–1754) writer, essayist, philosopher, historian and playwright;...
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    and promoting the concept of a national theatre in the tradition of Ludvig Holberg, the Sturm und Drang playwrights, and serious German opera. Today Hamburg...
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    house and estate situated close to Slagelse in Denmark. It was owned by Ludvig Holberg from 1740 until 1754. The current main building was constructed by August...
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    the Dano-Norwegian writer Ludvig Holberg, who lived from 1684 to 1754. Spitteler crater is due south of Holberg. "Holberg". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature...
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