Danish political and dramatic writer, born at Vordingborg, Denmark, on the 16th of November 1758; educated at the University of Copenhagen, and afterward lived in the same city as translator and political writer until 1799, when he was banished for a seditious publication. Went to Paris, and was employed by Napoleon as translator in the department of foreign affairs. Among his writings are Heckingborn and The Voyage to China, dramas; Historical and Critical Summary of the Danish Monarchy (1820); The Life of a Dollar Bill. He died in Paris on the 30th of April 1841. See also “Tycho Brahe, or the Ruins of Uranienborg.”
