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2 unusual facts about Johanne Luise Heiberg


Johanne Luise Heiberg

To a whole generation of Danish dramatists she was the muse and especially she inspired Henrik Hertz to write many of his main female roles for her.

Her autobiography, Et Liv gjenoplevet i Erindringen ("A Life Relived in Memory", ed. 1891-92) is a major literary work from the Danish Golden Age.


Moltke's Mansion

Among the Danish artists who regularly attended her salons were Jens Baggesen, Adam Oehlenschläger, Johanne Luise Heiberg, C.E.F Weyse, B. S. Ingemann and Kamma Rahbek.

Søkvæsthuset

The poet and professor Johan Ludvig Heiberg together with his wife, the actress Johanne Luise Heiberg, had his home in the building from 1844 until his death in 1860.


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