In his early works Pontoppidan studied the contrast between natureĪnd culture, environment and human aspirations. Mette Marie Hansen and thereafter he supported himself by writing.Īfter travels in Germany and Italy, Pontoppidan settled in Copenhagen. While living in the Zealand countryside Pontoppidan married His first story, 'Et Endeligt', had been published in the journal Ude og Hjemme. During this period Pontoppidan wrote aĬollection of short stories, Stækkede vinger (Clipped Wings ), which was published in 1881. Between 18 he worked as a teacher at a folk Pontoppidan left Copenhagen and until 1910 he lived in North Institute but by 1879 he interrupted his nearly completed engineering Instead he entered Copenhagen's Polytechic This period of destruction left aĭeep impression on Pontoppidan, who later returned into the invasion inĪs a protest against his family, Pontoppidan did not continue itsĮcclesiastical traditions. Town it was briefly occupied and sacked by Otto Von Bismarck's The family moved to Randers, another Jutland Radical theologian, and mother, whose maiden name was Oxenbøl, was theĭaughter if a government official. Henrik Pontoppidan was born in the town of Fredericia, on the Resentful.' (from Lucky Per, 1898, translated by Naomi Lebowitz ) Troublesome alien whose peculiarities left them, by turns, cool and Other inhabitants of the town who, for many years, viewed him as a In his outerĪppearance as in his whole way of life he differed sharply from the Towns of East Jutland that lie hidden among green hills at the base ofĪ thinly wooded fjord. War, a pastor named Johannes Sidenius lived in one of the small market

Naturalism writers. First and foremost, he modestlyĬonsidered himself a 'popular storyteller.' 'In the years before and after our last Modern Danish society, he did not join the ranks of doctrinaire Thomas Mann called him 'aįull-blooded storyteller.' Although Pontoppidan was a sharp critic of The social evils and the miserable situation of the peasant proletariat.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Zĭanish novelist whose realistic and pessimistic novels depicted

Lykke-Per 1 by Henrik Pontoppidan