In his study of Danish poets and their encounters with German artistic movements, Viktor Schmitz considers the "Urphänomen" – or genesis of the creative mindset – as expressed by Goethe, Oehlenschläger and Schiller, who had been close friends with Goethe for many years and died in May 1805. In a poem in which he pays homage to Goethe, Schiller praised happiness or luck ("Glück") as a gift of the gods, a present without merit or benefit. This praise applied to what Schiller admired in Goethe, but did not possess himself. But for Oehlenschläger – since "Aladdin" – happiness remained a sign of election ("ein Zeichen der Erwählung") and of itself, of 'having been chosen'; almost a primordial phenomenon ("Urphänomen") of poetry, as the struggle (or war) was for Schiller, or the demonic for Goethe.