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| | Ludvig Holberg |
 | | Ludwig Holberg, Baron Holberg, the great Scandinavian writer, was born at Bergen, in Norway, on the 3rd of December 1684. |
 | | In 1695 the boy Holberg was taken into the house of his uncle, Peder Lem, who sent him to the Latin school, and prepared him for the profession of a soldier; but soon after this he was adopted by his cousin Otto Munthe, and went to him up in the mountains. |
 | | Holberg was not only the founder of Danish literature and the greatest of Danish authors, but he was, with the exception of Voltaire, the first writer in Europe during his own generation. |
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