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influenced an interest in languages and culture. His mother died when he was 14 and father moved to work in the West Indies and he was taken care by the physician Frederik Ludvig Bang. He started studying medicine at the University of Copenhagen in 1817, which he later changed to history and philology and never completed. While a student, he was a supporter of the Philhellenic movement, and

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