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Carl Ludwig Emil Aarestrup was a Danish poet. Aarestrup was born in Copenhagen, and died in Odense. He graduated in 1827 majoring in medicine. That same year, he married Caroline Aagard and they settled down in Nysted, on the Danish island of Lolland where he lived for most of his life but from 1849 he was a doctor on Funen. He was a close friend of the poet Christian Winther.
