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HENRIK See also:PONTOPPIDAN (1857— ) , Danish author, son of a pastor, was See also:born at See also:Fredericia on the 24th of See also:July 1857 . He studied physics and See also:mathematics at the university of See also:Copenhagen, and when he was eighteen he travelled on See also:foot through See also:Germany and See also:Switzerland . His novels show an intimate acquaintance with See also:peasant See also:life and See also:character, the earlier ones showing clear See also:evidence of the See also:influence of Kjelland . An excellent example of his See also:work is. in the trilogy dealing with the See also:history of Emanuel Hansted, a theorizing See also:radical See also:parson who marries a peasant wife . These three stories, Muld (" See also:Soil," 1891), Det Forjaettede See also:Land (" The Promised Land," 1892), and Dommens Dag (1895) are marked by See also:fine discrimination and See also:great narrative See also:power . Among his other See also:works are See also:Fret Hytlerne (1887), Folkelivsskildringer (2 parts, 1888—189o), and Skyer (189o) . He began in 1888 a new See also:series in Lykke Per, the See also:story of a typical Jutlander . See an See also:article of Niels Moller in Dansk Biografisk Lexikon (vol, xiii., 1899) . |
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