ARREBOE, ANDERS-KRISTENSEN (1587-1637), Danish poet, was born in the island of Aeroc on Jan. 2, 1587, and died at Vordingborg, Zealand, on March 7, 1637. After studying at the University of Copenhagen he was appointed to preach at the Danish Court, and, in 1618, was nominated bishop of Dron theim; but in 1622 he was deprived of his bishopric by the Im perial Diet, on account of his dissipated habits. During his en forced retirement into private life Arreboe appears to have re pented of his former scandalous way of life ; he began to write a rhymed translation of the Psalms, which was published under the title, David's Psalter Sangviis udsat (Copenhagen, 1623 and 1662), and in 1626 he was appointed to be a priest again, in Vordingbord. Arreboe is sometimes called "the father of Danish poetry." He introduced the Alexandrine and double rhymed hexameter into the literature of his country, his best known work being a poem on the creation, called the Hexaemeron rhythmico danicum (Copenhagen, 1641 and 1660. Other works of his are, Relation i vers om Christian IV. des sejr over de Svenske (Copen hagen, 1611), a poem in praise of Christian IV.'s victories over the Swedes, and Sorgelig Digt om Dronning Annae Catharinae salige Hen/art (Copenhagen, 1612), an elegy on the death of Queen Anne Catherine.