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BERNHARD SEVERIN See also:INGEMANN (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 See also: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 All his See also:early and unpublished writings were destroyed when the English burned the See also:town .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: 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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