Knud Lyne Rahbek

Knud Lyne Rahbek (18 December 1760 – 22 April 1830) was a Danish literary historian, critic, writer, poet and magazine editor.

Together with librarian and scholar Rasmus Nyerup he founded the Danish study of literary history with the work Contributions to a review of the art of poetry in Denmark (Bidrag til en oversigt over den danske Digtekonst (in five volumes, 1800–1828).

As a prominent member of the most distinguished of the Danish clubs, most notably Drejers Klub [da], he wrote a number of drinking songs.

Together with his wife Kamma Rahbek, he held his own "court" at his home in the 17th-century inn turned private property called Bakkehuset in Frederiksberg, a suburb of Copenhagen.

Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger, Hans Christian Andersen, Bernhard Severin Ingemann, Steen Steensen Blicher all were personal friends of the Rahbeks.