Ingemann
BERNHARD SEV- ERIN, (in'gä-man), a Danish poet and novelist; born May 28, 1789. A very prolific writer of the sentimental school. He was extremely successful with several selections of "Fairy-tales and Stories." But his best works were a series of historical novels, in which he took Walter Scott for his model-"Valdemar Seier" (1826), "Erik Menved's Childhood" (1828), "King Erik" (1833), and "Prince Otto of Denmark" (1835).
The poems "Waldemar the Great and his Men" (1824), "Queen Margaret" (1836), and "Holger Danske" (1837) are based, like his novels, on incidents of Danish national history. He died Feb. 24, 1862.