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THOMSEN, GRIMUR (182o-1896)

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THOMSEN, GRIMUR (182o-1896) , Icelandic poet and See also:

man of letters, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in 182o. He came in 1837 to the university of See also:

COPENHAGEN (Danish Kjobenhavn)

Copenhagen, where he first studied See also:

law and See also:

PHILOLOGY

philology, but later, See also:

PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy and See also:

AESTHETICS

aesthetics. He became an enthusiastic follower of the See also:

Pan-Scandinavian See also:

MOVEMENT

movement, although this was not generally favoured by his countrymen. After some years of See also:

FOREIGN

foreign travel, in 1848 he entered the Danish See also:

DIPLOMATIC

diplomatic service, and remained in it till 1851, when he returned to Copenhagen, where he became the See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief of one of the departments of the Danish foreign See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office. He retired in 1866, and then went back to See also:

ICELAND (Dan. Island)

Iceland, where he passed the See also:

REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of his See also:

LIFE

life, active in the politics and the literature of his native See also:

ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island. He died in 1896. He is the best ballad poet Iceland has produced. His poems are unaffected and mostly See also:

FREE

free from See also:

RHETORIC (Gr. psroperctj TEXvq, the art of the orator)

rhetoric, the besetting See also:

sin of Icelandic poets. His subjects are principally taken from Icelandic or Scandinavian See also:

HISTORY

history and See also:

MYTHOLOGY

mythology. He is very unlike most of his contemporaries, both in See also:

style and thought: he is Icelandic to the core, and on that See also:

account is perhaps the See also:

MODERN

modern Icelandic poet most appreciated by foreigners Besides his poems (two See also:

SEPARATE

separate collections, Reykjavik, 188o, and Copenhagen, 1895), he is the author of numerous See also:

CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical and See also:

HISTORICAL

historical essays in Icelandic and Danish, and some larger See also:

WORKS

works in Danish, of which his dissertation on See also:

Lord See also:

Byron (Copenhagen, 1845) deserves to be mentioned. Grimur Thomsen was a warm admirer of See also:

Greek literature, and translated a See also:

GREAT

great number of poems from that See also:

LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language into Icelandic. (S.

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