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JOHAN LUDVIG HEIBERG (1791-186o)

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HEIBERG (1791-186o)  , Danish poet and critic, son of the See also:political writer See also:Peter Andreas See also:Heiberg (17587 . 1841), and of the famous novelist, afterwards the Baroness Gyllembourg-Ehrensvard, was See also:born at See also:Copenhagen on the 14th of See also:December 1791 . In 'Soo his See also:father was exiled and settled in See also:Paris, where he was employed in the See also:French See also:foreign See also:office, retiring in 1817 with a See also:pension . His political and satirical writings continued to exercise See also:great See also:influence over his See also:fellow-countrymen . Johan Ludvig Heiberg was taken by K . L . Rahbek and his wife into their See also:house at Bakkehuset . He was educated at the university of Copenhagen, and his first publication, entitled The See also:Theatre for See also:Marionettes (1814), included two romantic dramas . This was followed by See also:Christmas Jokes and New See also:Year's Tricks (1816), The See also:Initiation of See also:Psyche (1817), and The Prophecy of See also:Hebrew and later of See also:philosophy . In 1659 he was called to Steinfurt to fill the See also:chair of dogmatics and ecclesiastical See also:history, and in the same year he became See also:doctor of See also:theology of See also:Heidelberg . In 166o he revisited See also:Switzerland; and, after marrying, he travelled in the following year to See also:Holland, where he made the acquaintance of Johannes See also:Cocceius . He returned in 1665 to See also:Zurich, where he was elected See also:professor of moral philosophy .

Two years later he succeeded J . H . See also:

Hottinger (162o–1667) in the chair of theology, which he occupied till his See also:death on the 18th of See also:January 1698, having declined an invitation in 1669 to succeed J . Cocceius at See also:Leiden, as well as a See also:call to See also:Groningen . See also:Heidegger was the See also:principal author of the See also:Formula Consensus Helvetica in 1675,which was designed to unite the Swiss Reformed churches, but had an opposite effect . W . Gass describes him as the most notable of the Swiss theologians of the See also:time . His writings are largely controversial, though without being See also:bitter, and are in great See also:part levelled against the See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:Church . The See also:chief are De historia sacra patriarcharum exercitationes selectae (1667–1671); Dissertatio de Peregrinationibus religiosis (167o); De ratione studiorum, opuscula aurea, &c . (167o); Historia papatus (1684; under the name See also:Nicander von Hohenegg); Manuductio in viam concordiae Protestantium ecclesiasticae (1686) ; See also:Tumulus concilii Tridentini (169o) ; Exercitationes bibbicae (1700), with a See also:life of the author prefixed; Corpus theologiae Christianae (1700, edited by J . H . Schweizer); Ethicae Christianae elementa (1711) ; and lives of J .

H . Hottinger (1667) and J . L . See also:

Fabricius (1698) . His autobiography appeared in 1698, under the See also:title Historia vitae J . H . Heideggeri . See the articles in See also:Herzog-Hauck's Realencyklopadie and the Allgemeine deutsche Biographic; and cf . W . Gass, Geschichte der protestantischen Dogmatik, ii . 353 if . Tycho See also:Brahe, a See also:satire on the eccentricities of the Romantic writers, especially on the sentimentality of See also:Ingemann .

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These See also:

works attracted See also:attention at a time when See also:Baggesen, See also:Ohlenschlager and Ingemann possessed the popular See also:ear, and were understood at once to be the opening of a great career . In 1817 Heiberg took his degree, and in 1819 went abroad with a See also:grant from See also:government . He proceeded to Paris, and spent the next three years there with his father . In 1822 he published his See also:drama of Nina, and was made professor of the Danish See also:language at the university of See also:Kiel, where he delivered a course of lectures, comparing the Scandinavian See also:mythology as found in the See also:Edda with the poems of Ohlenschlager . These lectures were published in See also:German in 1827 . In 1825 Heiberg came back to Copenhagen for the purpose of introducing the See also:vaudeville on the Danish See also:stage . He composed a great number of these vaudevilles, of which the best known are See also:King See also:Solomon and See also:George the Hatmaker (1825); See also:April See also:Fools (1826); A See also:Story in Rosenborg See also:Garden (1827); Kjoge Huskors (1831); The Danes in Paris (1833); No (1836); and Yes (1839) . He took his See also:models from the French theatre, but showed extraordinary skill in blending the words and the See also:music; but the subjects and the See also:humour were essentially Danish and even topical . Meanwhile he was producing dramatic See also:work of a more serious See also:kind; in 1828 he brought out the See also:national drama of Elverhoi; in 183o The Inseparables; in 1835 the See also:fairy See also:comedy of The Elves, a dramatic version of See also:Tieck's Elfin; and in 1838 Fata Morgana . In 1841 Heiberg published a See also:volume of New Poems containing " A Soul after Death," a comedy which is perhaps his See also:master-piece, " The Newly Wedded Pair," and other pieces . He edited from 1827 to 1830 the famous weekly, the Flyvende See also:Post (The Flying Post), and subsequently the Interimsblade (1834–1837) and the Intelligensblade (1842–1843) . In his journalism he carried on his warfare against the excessive pretensions of the Romanticists, and produced much valuable and penetrating See also:criticism of See also:art and literature .

In 1831 he married the actress Johann See also:

Louise Paetges (1812–1890), herself the author of some popular vaudevilles . Heiberg's scathing satires, however, made him very unpopular; and this antagonism reached its height when, in 1845, he published his malicious little drama of The See also:Nut Crackers . Nevertheless he became in 1847 director of the national theatre . He filled the post for seven years, working with great zeal and conscientiousness, but was forced by intrigues from without to resign it in 1854 . Heiberg died at Bonderup, near Ringsted, on the 25th of See also:August 186o . His influence upon See also:taste and See also:critical See also:opinion was greater than that of any writer of his time, and can only be compared with that of See also:Holberg in the 18th See also:century . Most of the poets of the Romantic See also:movement in See also:Denmark were very See also:grave and serious; Heiberg added the See also:element of humour, elegance and See also:irony . He had the See also:genius of See also:good taste, and his witty and delicate productions stand almost unique in the literature of his See also:country . The poetical works of Heiberg were collected, in 11 vols., in 1861–1862, and his See also:prose writings (11 vols.) in the same year . The last volume of his prose works contains some fragments of autobiography . See also G . See also:Brandes, Essays (1889) .

For the See also:

elder Heiberg see monographs by Thaarup (1883) and by Schwanenflugel (1891) .

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