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Oehlenschläger

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/ ˈøːlənslɛːɡər /

noun

  1. Adam Gottlob (ˈadam ˈɡɔtlɔp). 1779–1850, Danish romantic poet and dramatist

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In the last and oddest of them, a male chorus implores listeners to draw close to Allah, singing from the text of an early 19th-century version of “Aladdin” by the Danish playwright Adam Oehlenschläger.

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2023

Gautier, as a poet, Delacroix as a painter, affect the East, as Oehlenschläger does in Ali and Gulhyndi.

From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen

As told here the legend is adapted from the amplified version by Oehlenschläger.

From The Book of Romance by Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice)

He had once been apprentice to the widow of Möller the dyer, when Oehlenschläger and the Oersteds used to dine at the house.

From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen

"When I write in Danish," says Oehlenschläger, "I write for only six hundred persons."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 36, October, 1860 by Various

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