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See also:DRACHMANN, HOLGER HENRIK HERBOLDT (1846-1908) , Danish poet and dramatist, son of Dr A. G. Drachmann, a physician of See also:Copenhagen, whose See also:family was of See also:German ex-See also:traction, was See also:born in Copenhagen on the 9th of See also:October 1846. Owing to the See also:early See also:death of his See also:mother, who was a Dane, the See also:child was See also:left much to his own devices. He soon See also:developed a fondness for semi-poetical performances, and loved to organize among his companions heroic See also:games, in. which he himself took such parts as those of See also:Tordenskjold and Niels Juul. His studies were belated, and he did not enter the university until 1865, leaving it in 1866 to become a student in the See also:Academy of See also:Fine Arts. From 1866 to 1870 he was learning, under See also:Professor Sorensen, to become a marine painter, and not without success. But about the latter date he came under the See also:influence of Georg See also:Brandes, and, without abandoning See also:art, he began to give himself more and more to literature. At various periods he travelled very extensively in See also:England, See also:Scotland, See also:France, See also:Spain and See also:Italy, and his See also:literary career began by his sending letters about his journeys to the Danish See also:newspapers. After returning See also:home, he settled for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in the See also:island of See also:Bornholm, See also:painting seascapes. He now issued his earliest See also:volume of poems, Digte (1872), and joined the See also:group of See also:young See also:Radical writers who gathered under the banner of Brandes. Drachmann was unsettled, and still doubted whether his real strength See also:lay in the See also:pencil or in the See also:pen. By this time he had enjoyed a surprising experience of See also:life, especially among sailors, fishermen, students and artists, and the issues of the Franco-German See also:War and the See also:French See also:Commune had persuaded him that a new and glorious era was at See also:hand. His volume of lyrics, Daempede Melodier (" Muffled Melodies," 1875), proved that Drachmann was a poet with a real vocation, and he began to produce books in See also:prose and See also:verse with See also:great rapidity. Ungt Bled (" Young See also:Blood," 1876) contained three realistic stories of contemporary life. But he returned to his true See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field in his magnificent Sange ved See also:Havel; Venezia (" Songs of the See also:Sea; See also:Venice," 1877), and won the passionate admiration of his countrymen by his prose See also:work, with interludes in verse, called Derovre fra Graensen (" Over the Frontier there," 1877), a See also:series of impressions made on Drachmann by a visit to the scenes of the war with See also:Germany. During the succeeding years he was a great traveller, visiting most of the See also:principal countries of the See also:world, but particularly familiarizing himself, by protracted voyages, with the sea and with the life of See also:man in maritime places. In 1879 he published Ranker og Roser (" Tendrils and See also:Roses "), amatory lyrics of a very high See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of See also:melody, in which he showed a great advance in technical art. To the same See also:period belongs Paa Somands Tro og Love (" On the Faith and See also:Honour of a Sailor," 1878), a volume of See also:short stories in prose. It was about this time that Drachmann See also:broke with Brandes and the Radicals, and set himself at the See also:head of a sort of " nationalist " or popular-Conservative party in See also:Denmark. He continued to celebrate the life of the fishermen and sailors in books, whether in prose or verse, which were the most popular of their See also:day. See also:Paul og Virginie and Lars Kruse (both 1879); Osten for Sol og vesten for Maone (" See also:East of the See also:Sun and See also:- MOON (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Mond, Du. maan, Dan. maane, &c., and cognate with such Indo-Germanic forms as Gr. µlip, Sans. ma's, Irish mi, &c.; Lat. uses luna, i.e. lucna, the shining one, lucere, to shine, for the moon, but preserves the word i
- MOON, SIR RICHARD, 1ST BARONET (1814-1899)
Moon," 188o); Puppe og Sommerfugl (" Chrysalis and Butterfly," 1882); and Strandby Folk (1883) were among these. In 1882 Drachmann published his fine See also:translation, or See also:paraphrase, of See also:Byron's See also:Don .Tuan. In 1885 his romantic See also:play called Der See also:var en Gang (" Once upon a Time ") had a great success on the boards of the Royal See also:theatre, Copenhagen; and his tragedies of Volund Smed (" See also:Wayland the See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith ") and Brav-Karl (1897) made him the most popular playwright of Denmark. He published in 1894 a volume of exquisitely fantastic Melodramas in rhymed verse, a collection which contains some of Drachmann's most perfect work. His
novel Med den brede Pensel (" With a Broad See also:Brush," 1887) was followed in 1890 by Forskrevet, the See also:history of a young painter, Henrik See also:Gerhard, and his revolt against his See also:bourgeois surroundings. With this novel is closely connected Den hellige Ild (" The Sacred See also:Fire," 1899), in which Drachmann speaks in his own See also:person. There is practically no See also:story in this autobiographical volume, which abounds in lyrical passages. In 1899 he produced his romantic play called Gurre; in 1900 a brilliant lyrical See also:drama, Hallfred Vandraadeskjald; and in 1903, Det grbnne Haab. He died in Copenhagen on the 14th of See also:January 1908.
See an See also:article by K. Gjellerup in Dansk Biografisk Lexikon vol. iv. (Copenhagen, 189o). (E.
End of Article: DRACHMANN, HOLGER HENRIK HERBOLDT (1846-1908)
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