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Jan 27, 1616 Viborg, Central Denmark Region, Denmark Died on 05 Feb 1664 (aged 48)
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About Christen Aagaard
- Christen Lauritsen Aagaard (27 or 28 January 1616, in Viborg, Denmark – 5 February 1664, in Ribe), was a Danish poet.
- He studied from 1635 to 1639 in Copenhagen.
- Since 1647 he was professor of poetry at the University of Copenhagen.
- In 1651 he became rector and in 1658 lecturer in theology at Ribe, in Jutland and also preacher at Vester-Vedsted.
- Among other Latin poems, he wrote Threni Hyperborei, [Lamentations of the North] published, in folio, in 1648, on the death of Christian IV, King of Denmark.
- Several of his pieces are inserted in the first volume of Rostgaard's Deliciae Poëtarum Danorum (Copenhagen 1693).
