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INGEMANN, BERNHARD SEVERIN (1789—1862)

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INGEMANN, BERNHARD SEVERIN (1789—1862) , Danish poet and novelist, was See also:born at Torkildstrup, in the See also:island of Falster, on the 28th of May 1789. He was educated at the See also:grammar school at Slagelse, and entered the university of See also:Copenhagen in 18o6. His studies were interrupted by the See also:English invasion, and or. the first See also:night of the See also:bombardment of the See also:city Ingemann stood with the See also:young poet Blicher on the walls, while the shells whistled past them, and comrades were killed on either See also:side. All his See also:early and unpublished writings were destroyed when the English burned the See also:town. In 18fr-he published his first See also:volume of poems, and in 1812 his second, followed in 1813 by a See also:book of lyrics entitled Procne and in 1814 the See also:verse See also:romance, The See also:Black Knights. In 1815 he published two tragedies, See also:Masaniello and Blanca, ollowed by The See also:Voice in the See also:Desert, The Shepherd of Tolosa, and other romantic plays. After a variety of publications, all very successful, he travelled in 1818 to See also:Italy. At See also:Rome he wrote The Liberation of See also:Tasso, and returned in i819 to Copenhagen. In 182o he began to display his real See also:power in a volume of delightful tales. In 1821 his dramatic career closed with the See also:production of an unsuccessful See also:comedy, See also:Magnetism in a See also:Barber's See also:Shop. In 1822 the poet was nominated See also:lector in Danish See also:language and literature at Soro See also:College, and he now married. Valdemar the See also:Great and his Men, an See also:historical epic, appeared in 1824.

The next few years were occupied with his best and most durable See also:

work, his four great See also:national and historical novels of Valdemar Seier, 1826; Erik Menved's Childhood, 1828; See also:King Erik, 1833; and See also:Prince See also:Otto of See also:Denmark, 1835. He then returned to epic See also:poetry in See also:Queen See also:Margaret, 1836, and in a See also:cycle of romances, Holger Danske, 1837. His later writings consist of religious and sentimental lyrics, epic poems, novels, See also:short stories in See also:prose, and See also:fairy tales. His last publication was The See also:Apple of See also:Gold, 1856. In 1846 Ingemann was nominated director of Sore College, a See also:post from which he retired in 1849. He died on the 24th of See also:February 1862. Ingemann enjoyed during his lifetime a popularity unapproached even by that of See also:Ohlenschlager. His boundless facility and fecundity, his sentimentality, his religious See also:melancholy, his See also:direct See also:appeal to the domestic affections, gave him instant See also:access to the See also:ear of the public. His novels are better than his poems; of the former the best are those which are directly modelled on the manner of See also:Sir See also:Walter See also:Scott. As a dramatist he outlived his reputation, and his unwieldy epics are now little read. Ingemann's See also:works were collected in 41 vols. at Copenhagen (1843-1865). His autobiography was edited by Galskjot in 1862; his See also:correspondence by V.

Heise (1879–1881); and his letters to See also:

Grundtvig by S. Grundtvig (1882). See also H. Schwanenflugel, Ingemanns Liv og Digtning (1886); and Georg See also:Brandes, Essays (1889).

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