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Sport
  
Fencing

Name
  
Aage Berntsen

Role
  
Poet


Born
  
16 May 1885 (
1885-05-16
)
Saerslev, Denmark

Died
  
April 16, 1952, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

Aage Berntsen (16 May 1885 – 16 April 1952) was a Danish fencer, poet, doctor and artist. He competed in five events at the 1920 Summer Olympics.

He was son of the Danish prime minister Klaus Berntsen and his brother was the fencer Oluf Berntsen.

Among his poetry and writings he is best known for the text for Carl Nielsen's Fynsk Foraar.

References

Aage Berntsen Wikipedia