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Jens Peter Jacobsen
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Danish writer
b. Apr 7 1847 in
Thisted
, north
Jutland
d. Apr. 30. 1885
Jacobsen was the son of a wealthy buyer in Thisted. At 16 he moved to
Copenhagen
, in order to take the advanced examination at the university and from 1867 studied
botany
. It never passed the exam, but in 1873 won a university prize with an work on the green
algae
. In addition, he translated two important works of
Charles Darwin
("
Origin of Species
" and "
The Descent of Man
") into Danish and thereby promoted the popularity of Darwinian thought Northern Europe.
His close friendship with
George
and
Edvard Brandes
, the founders of the modern break-through in
Scandinavian
literature, stimulated his literary ambitions. His first novel
"Mogens"
(1872) posited nature as the ground into which humans must insert themselves, and in one sense heralded the modern break-through in literature because of
impressionistic
language. The same applies to second novel,
Fru Marie Grubb
which he published after a journey to France and Italy 1880 This work justified his fame as a forerunner of the
symbolists
and neo-romanticism of the
Fin-de-Siècle
-Epoch
. Because of this work he gained more popularity in German-speaking countries than in his homeland. However, he was already beleagered with a drawn-out illness, which prevented him from writing further works except some narrations. His
Gurrelieder
songs, set to music by
Arnold Schoenberg
, were published postumously.
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Symbolist
Gurrelieder
Charles Darwin
Saint Catherine of Alexandria
Komodo dragon
Arnold Schoenberg
Scandinavian
algae
botany
Edvard Brandes
George Brandes
The Descent of Man
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