Writing · Writer · Theatre Play
Born Dec 14, 1791 · Copenhagen, Denmark
Active 1939–1860 · Awards: Professor, etatsråd, Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog, Decoration of the Cross of Honour of the Dannebrog
Johan Ludvig Heiberg, (1791-1860) was a playwright, poet, literary historian, and critic whose romantic idealism in a sense epitomized the Danish Romantic school, which he helped bring to an end when he established a new era of topical,…