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church of St Kund, Odense, and began to turn his thoughts to the future. It was thought that he was best fitted to be a tailor; but as nothing was settled, and as Andersen wished to be an See also:

OPERA (Italian for " work ")

opera-See also:

SINGER, SIMEON (1846-1906)

singer, he took matters into his own See also:

hand and started for See also:

COPENHAGEN (Danish Kjobenhavn)

Copenhagen in See also:

SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1819. There he was taken for a lunatic, snubbed at the theatres, and nearly reduced to See also:

STARVATION

starvation, but he was befriended by the musicians Christoph Weyse and Siboni, and afterwards by the poet Frederik Hoegh Guldberg (1771-1852). His See also:

VOICE (Fr. voix, from Lat. vox)

voice failed, but he was admitted as a dancing See also:

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil at the Royal Theatre. He See also:

GREW, NEHEMIAH (1641-1712)

grew idle, and lost the favour of Guldberg, but a new See also:

PATRON

patron appeared in the See also:

PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person of See also:

JONAS, JUSTUS (1493–1555)

Jonas See also:

Collin, the director of the Royal Theatre, who became Andersen's See also:

LIFE

life-See also:

long friend. See also:

King See also:

Frederick VI. was interested in the See also:

STRANGE, SIR ROBERT (1721-1792)

strange boy and sent him for some years, See also:

FREE

free of See also:

charge, to the See also:

GREAT

great See also:

GRAMMAR (from Lat. grammatica, sc. ars; Gr. ypaµ)

grammar-school at Slagelse. Before he started for school he published his first See also:

VOLUME

volume, The See also:

GHOST (a word common to the W. Teutonic languages; O.E. vest, Dutch, 'geest, Ger. Geist)

Ghost at Palnatoke's See also:

GRAVE

Grave (1822).

Andersen, a very backward and unwilling pupil, actually remained at Slagelse and at another school in See also:

ELSINORE (Dan. Helsingor)

Elsinore until 1827; these years, he says, were the darkest and bitterest in his life. Collin at length consented to consider him educated, and Andersen came to Copenhagen. In 1829 he made a considerable success with a fantastic volume entitled A See also:

JOURNEY (through O. Fr. jornee or journee, mod. Fr. journee, from med. Lat. diurnata, Lat. diurnus, of or belonging to dies, day)

Journey on See also:

FOOT

Foot from See also:

HOLMAN, JAMES (1786–1857)

Holman's See also:

Canal to the See also:

East Point of Amager, and he published in the same See also:

SEASON (0. Fr. seson, seison, mod. saison, Lat. satio, sowing time, the spring, from serere, to sow; in Late Lat. the word is found with its present meaning, the spring being considered as particularly the season of the year)

season a See also:

FARCE

farce and a See also:

BOOK

book of poems. He thus suddenly came into See also:

REQUEST, LETTERS OF

request at the moment when his See also:

friends had decided that no See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good thing would ever come out of his early eccentricity and vivacity. He made little further progress, however, until 1833, when he received a small travel-See also:

LING, PER HENRIK (1776-1839)

ling See also:

STIPEND

stipend from the king, and made the first of his long See also:

EUROPEAN

European journeys. At Le See also:

LOCLE, LE

Locle, in the See also:

Jura, he wrote Agnate and the Merman; and in See also:

OCTOBER

October 1834 he arrived in See also:

Rome. Early in 1835 Andersen's novel, The See also:

IMPROVISATORE

Improvisatore, appeared, and achieved a real success; the poet's troubles were at an end at last. In the same See also:

YEAR

year, 1835, the earliest See also:

INSTALMENT (for earlier stallment or estallment, from Fr. estaler, to fix, arrange; the change is probably due to the influence of the verb " install ")

instalment of Andersen's immortal See also:

FAIRY (Fr. fee, faerie; Prov. facia; Sp. hada; Ital. fata; med. Lat. fatare, to enchant, from Lat. fatum, fate, destiny)

Fairy Tales (Eventyr) was published in Copenhagen. Other parts, completing the first volume, appeared in 1836 and 1837. The value of these stories was not at first perceived, and they sold slowly. Andersen was more successful for the See also:

time being with a novel, O.T., and a volume of sketches, In See also:

Sweden; in 1837 he produced the best of his romances, Only a Fiddler. He now turned his See also:

ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention, with but ephemeral success, to the theatre, but was recalled to his true See also:

GENIUS (from Lat. genere, gignere)

genius in the charming miscellanies of 1840 and 1842, the Picture-Book without Pictures, and A Poet's See also:

BAZAAR (Pers. bazar, market)

Bazaar.

Meanwhile the fame of his Fairy Tales had been steadily rising; a second See also:

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series began in 1838, a third in 1845. Andersen was now celebrated throughout See also:

EUROPE

Europe, although in See also:

Denmark itself there was still some resistance to his pretensions. In See also:

JUNE

June 1847 he paid his first visit to See also:

England, and enjoyed a triumphal social success; when he left, See also:

Charles See also:

DICKENS, CHARLES JOHN HUFFAM (1812-187o)

Dickens saw him off from. See also:

RAMSGATE

Ramsgate See also:

PIER (older forms per or Pere, from Med. Lat. pera; the word for piers out of water. For river piers, where a firm, watertight is of obscure origin, and the connexion with Fr. Pierre, Lat. stratum is found at a moderate depth below the river-bed, the pctr

pier. After this Andersen continued to publish much; he still desired to excel as a novelist and a dramatist, which he could not do, and he still disdained the enchanting Fairy Tales, in the See also:

composition of which his unique genius See also:

lay. Nevertheless he continued to write them, and in 1847 and 1848 two fresh volumes appeared. After a long silence Andersen published in 18J7 another See also:

ROMANCE

romance, To be or not to be. In 1863, after a very interesting journey, he issued one of the best of his travel-books, In See also:

Spain. His Fairy Tales continued to appear, in instalments, until 1872, when, at See also:

CHRISTMAS (i.e. the Mass of Christ)

Christmas, the last stories were published. In the See also:

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

spring of that year Andersen had an awkward See also:

accident, falling out of See also:

bed and severely hurting himself. He was never again quite well, but he lived till the 4th of See also:

AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1875, when he died very peacefully in the See also:

house called Rolighed, near Copenhagen. (E.

End of Article: ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN (1805-1875)

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