Johann Lauremberg was a poet, a dramatist, and a satirist in both German and Latin. He was also a medical doctor, a professor of poetics, a professor of mathematics who published several textbooks and introduced logarithms into Denmark, a professor of fortifications, a cartographer, a geographer, and a scholar of ancient Greek language and culture. A renowned teacher, he helped to set educational policies and curricula not only at his home institution of Sorø but also at other schools in Denmark (as attested, for example, by a letter of advice to Hans Mikkelsen Ravn [Johann Michaelis Corvinus], rector at the school in Slagelse). He was also the author of occasional lyrics in Latin, German, French, and Danish in recognition of births, deaths, weddings, new employment, awarding of university degrees, and publications by friends. Lauremberg can be regarded as the court poet of Denmark during the later reign...