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

Peter Frederik Adolph Hammerich (1809–1877)

Hammerich, Peter Frederik Adolph (häm’mer-iċh). A Danish poet, theologian, and historian; born in Copenhagen, 1809; died there, Feb. 9, 1877. During the Danish-German War he was an army chaplain; and after it he was elected to Parliament, and began to write history. As a poet his ‘Hero Songs’ deserve mention.