Baggesen, Jens Emmanuel (Bagge`sen, Jens Emmanuel) , a Danish poet, travelled a good deal, wrote mostly in German, in which he was quite at home; his chief works, a pastoral epic, “Parthenais oder die Alpenreise,” and a mock epic, “Adam and Eve”; his minor pieces are numerous and popular, though from his egotism and irritability he was personally unpopular (1764‒1826).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Bagehot, Walter * Baghelkand