Aarestrup, Carl Ludvig Emil (1800–1856)
Danish poet. An aesthete with a warm admiration of female beauty and an unusual
frankness in erotic description, he was little known until the posthumous publication
of his poems in 1863, followed by an edition of his Samlede Digte/Collected Poems
(1877).
Born in Copenhagen, Aarestrup was a physician by profession and published only one
volume of poetry, Digte/Poems (1838), during his lifetime.