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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

Thus it was that Ibsen, like Oehlenschläger before him and Björnson in his own day, made the Sagas his starting-point.

From The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama by Filon, Augustin

Among those who heard him, no one was more scandalised than Oehlenschläger, then in his twenty-third year. 

From The Gold Horns by Borrow, George Henry

The story of the events which led to the composition of The Gold Horns is told independently, by Steffens and by Oehlenschläger in their respective Memoirs, and the two accounts tally completely. 

From The Gold Horns by Borrow, George Henry

The most conspicuous act of his literary life was the controversy with Oehlenschläger, and the wittiest product of his pen is the reckless criticism of Oehlenschläger's opera 'Ludlam's Cave.'

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright

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