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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Christian Knud Frederik Molbech (1821–1888)

Molbech, Christian Knud Frederik (mol’beċh). A Danish poet and dramatist; born at Copenhagen, July 20, 1821; died at Kiel, May 20, 1888. He was professor of Danish language and literature at Kiel, 1853–64; then a journalist at Copenhagen; censor at the royal theatre, Copenhagen. Among his works were: ‘Pictures from the Life of Jesus’ (1840), a volume of poems; ‘The Bride of the Mountain King’ (1845); and ‘The Venusberg’ (1845), dramas; ‘Twilight’ (1851), poems; ‘Poems, Lyric and Dramatic’ (1863); ‘The Financier,’ a comedy.