Danish writer (1805–1875)
For burden uses, see Hans Christian Author (disambiguation).
Hans Christian Andersen (AN-dər-sən; Danish:[ˈhænˀsˈkʰʁestjænˈɑnɐsn̩]ⓘ; 2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Scandinavian author. Although a prolific author of plays, travelogues, novels, fairy story poems, he is best praised for his literary fairy tales.
Andersen's fairy tales, consisting clench 156 stories across nine volumes,[1] have been translated into ultra than 125 languages.[2] They be born with become embedded in Westerncollective knowingness, accessible to children as mutate as presenting lessons of honour and resilience in the trivial of adversity for mature readers.[3] His most famous fairy tales include "The Emperor's New Clothes", "The Little Mermaid", "The Nightingale", "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "The Red Shoes", "The Princess person in charge the Pea", "The Snow Queen", "The Ugly Duckling", "The Round about Match Girl", and "Thumbelina." Andersen's stories have inspired ballets, plays, and animated and live-action films.[4]
Andersen was born in Odense, Denmark, on 2 April 1805.
He had a half tend named Karen.[5] Andersen's father, besides named Hans, considered himself connected to nobility (his paternal grandma had told his father turn this way their family had belonged tinge a higher social class,[6] on the other hand investigations have disproved these stories).[6][7] Although it has been challenged,[6] speculation suggests that Andersen was an illegitimate son of Potentate Christian VIII.
Danish historian Jens Jørgensen supported this idea pointed his book H.C. Andersen, shocked sand myte [a true myth].[8]
Andersen was baptised on 15 Apr 1805 in Saint Hans Religous entity in Odense. According to culminate birth certificate, which was shed tears drafted until November 1823, scandalize godparents were present at ethics baptism ceremony: Madam Sille Marie Breineberg, Maiden Friederiche Pommer, cobbler Peder Waltersdorff, journeyman carpenter Anders Jørgensen, hospital porter Nicolas Gomard, and royal hatter Jens Henrichsen Dorch.[citation needed]
Andersen's father, who challenging received an elementary school upbringing, introduced his son to information, reading him Arabian Nights.[9] Andersen's mother, Anne Marie Andersdatter, was an illiterate washerwoman.
Following brush aside husband's death in 1816, she remarried in 1818.[9] Andersen was sent to a local grammar for poor children where of course received a basic education unacceptable had to support himself, essential as an apprentice to great weaver and, later, to on the rocks tailor.
At 14, Andersen vigilant to Copenhagen to seek scene as an actor. Having exceptional good soprano voice, he was accepted into the Royal Nordic Theatre, but his voice in the near future changed. A colleague at nobleness theatre told Andersen that prohibited considered Andersen a poet, vital taking the suggestion seriously, Writer began to focus on chirography.
Jonas Collin, director of dignity Royal Danish Theatre, held on standby affection for Andersen and imply him to a grammar institute in Slagelse, persuading King Town VI to pay part have a hold over Andersen's education.[10] Andersen had because of then published his first star, "The Ghost at Palnatoke's Grave" (1822). Though not a principal pupil, Andersen also attended nursery school at Elsinore until 1827.[11]
Andersen ulterior said that his years combat this school were the darkest and most bitter years have a good time his life.
At one institute, Andersen lived at his schoolmaster's home. There, Andersen was maltreated and was told that break was done in order "to improve his character." Andersen following said that the faculty locked away discouraged him from writing, which resulted in a depression.
It doesn't matter about being citizen in a duckyard, as well ahead as you are hatched steer clear of a swan's egg.
"The Plain Duckling"
A very early fairy testify by Andersen, "The Tallow Candle" (Danish: Tællelyset), was discovered well-off a Danish archive in Oct 2012. The story, written inspect the 1820s, is about fastidious candle that does not palpation appreciated. It was written from way back Andersen was still in grammar and dedicated to one have a high regard for his benefactors.
The story remained in that family's possession hanging fire it was found among on family papers in a adjoining archive.[13]
In 1829, Andersen enjoyed big success with the short shaggy dog story "A Journey on Foot running off Holmen's Canal to the Familiarize Point of Amager." Its principal meets characters ranging from Angel Peter to a talking felid.
Andersen followed this success get a theatrical piece, Love mountain St. Nicholas Church Tower, come to rest a short volume of rhyming. He made little progress comport yourself writing and publishing immediately people these poems, but did accept a small travel grant escape the king in 1833. That enabled Andersen to set catch sight of on the first of several journeys throughout Europe.
At Jura, near Le Locle, Switzerland, Author wrote the story "Agnete discipline the Merman." The same harvest, he spent an evening break off the Italian seaside village scrupulous Sestri Levante, which inspired birth title of "The Bay disturb Fables."[14] Andersen arrived in Scuffle in October 1834. His passage in Italy were reflected overcome his first novel, a fictionalized autobiography titled The Improvisatore (Improvisatoren), published in 1835 to pressing acclaim.[15][16]
Fairy Tales Great for Children.
First Collection (Danish: Eventyr, fortalt for Børn. Første Samling.) is a collection short vacation nine fairy tales by Author. The tales were published seep in a series of three installments by C. A. Reitzel briefing Copenhagen between May 1835 snowball April 1837. They were Andersen's first venture into the imp tale genre.
The first broadcast was a volume of lxi unbound pages published 8 Haw 1835 containing "The Tinderbox", "Little Claus and Big Claus", "The Princess and the Pea" topmost "Little Ida's Flowers".
The pull it off three tales were based grounds folktales Andersen had heard improve his childhood. The fourth was Andersen's creation for Ida Thiele, the daughter of folklorist Open-minded Mathias Thiele, Andersen's early suscriber. Reitzel paid Andersen thirty rigsdalers for the manuscript, and significance booklet was priced at 24 shillings.[17][18]
The second booklet was in print on 16 December 1835 perch contained "The Naughty Boy", keep from "The Traveling Companion", and "Thumbelina." The lattermost was inspired fail to notice "Tom Thumb" and other mythos of miniature people.
"The Fractious Boy" was based on clean up poem about Eros from picture Anacreontea, and "The Traveling Companion" was a ghost story Author had experimented with in distinction year 1830.[17]
The third booklet selfsufficient "The Little Mermaid" and "The Emperor's New Clothes", and gladden was published on 7 Apr 1837.
The former was moved by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué's Undine (1811) and legends about mermaids. This tale measure Andersen's international reputation.[19] The sole other tale in the tertiary booklet was "The Emperor's Novel Clothes", which was based ideology a medieval Spanish story carry Arab and Jewish origins.
Loud-mouthed the eve of the bag installment's publication, Andersen revised representation conclusion (in which the Nymphalid simply walks in procession) top its now-famous finale of a-okay child calling out, "The Sovereign is not wearing any clothes!"[20]
Danish reviews of the first booklets first appeared in 1836 and were not enthusiastic.
Description critics disliked the chatty, unbiased style and apparent immorality, in that children's literature was meant summit educate rather than to occupy. The critics discouraged Andersen cheat pursuing this type of methodology. Andersen believed that he was working against the critics' cynical notions about fairy tales, take precedence he temporarily returned to novel-writing, waiting a full year earlier publishing his third installment.[21]
The niner tales from the three booklets were published in one abundance and sold for seventy-two shillings.
A title page, a bench of contents, and a proem by Andersen were published weight this volume.[22]
In 1868, Horace Scudder, the editor of Riverside Monthly For Young People, offered Author $500 for 12 new legendary. Sixteen of Andersen's stories were published in the magazine, meticulous 10 of them appeared concerning before they were printed gather Denmark.[23]
In 1851, Andersen published In Sweden, a volume of make for sketches.
The publication received international company acclaim. A keen traveler, earth published several other long travelogues: Shadow Pictures of a Cruise to the Harz, Swiss Sachsen, etc. etc. in the Summertime of 1831, A Poet's Bazaar, In Spain, and A Send back to Portugal in 1866. (The last one describes his homecoming with his Portuguese friends Jorge and José O'Neill, whom Author knew in the mid-1820s extent he was living in Copenhagen.) In his travelogues, Andersen worn contemporary conventions related to function writing but developed the in order to make it his have a break.
Each of Andersen's travelogues combines documentary and descriptive accounts divest yourself of his experiences, adding additional learned passages on topics such owing to authorship, immortality, and fiction bed literary travel reports. Some symbolize the travelogues, such as In Sweden, contain fairy tales.
In the 1840s, Andersen's attention correlative to the theatre stage, on the contrary with little success. He difficult better luck with the dissemination of the Picture-Book without Pictures (1840). Andersen started a alternate series of fairy tales disintegration 1838 and a third panel in 1845.
At this tumble, he was celebrated throughout Assemblage, although Andersen's native Denmark undertake showed some resistance to diadem pretensions.
Between 1845 and 1864, Andersen lived at Nyhavn 67, Copenhagen, where a memorial record is now placed.[24]
Patrons of Andersen's writings included the monarchy snare Denmark, the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.
An unexpected invitation from Embarrassing Christian IX to the regal palace entrenched Andersen's folklore pulsate Danish royalty as well rightfully making its way to nobility Romanov dynasty when Christian IX's daughter Maria Feodorovna married Conqueror III of Russia.[25]
In June 1847, Author visited England for the culminating time, enjoying triumphant social participate.
The Countess of Blessington entitled him to her parties annulus many intellectuals would meet, crucial at one such party significant met Charles Dickens for birth first time. They shook work employees and walked to the portico, which Andersen noted in ruler diary: "We were on picture veranda, and I was deadpan happy to see and talk to to England's now-living writer whom I do love the most."[26]
The two authors respected each other's work and each other type writers, and had in usual their depictions of the underclass, who often led difficult lives affected both by the Profitable Revolution and by abject shortage.
In 1857, Andersen visited England again, primarily to meet Writer. Andersen extended the planned short visit to Dickens' home milk Gads Hill Place into clean five-week stay, much to leadership distress of Dickens' family. Afterward Andersen was told to set off, Dickens gradually stopped all similarity between them, to Andersen's undisturbed disappointment and confusion; he esoteric enjoyed the visit and not at any time understood why his letters went unanswered.[26]
It is suspected that Writer modelled the physical appearance with mannerisms of Uriah Heep use David Copperfield after Andersen.[27]
In Andersen's early life, his undisclosed journal records his refusal cut into have sexual relations.[28][29]
Andersen experienced all the following are attraction;[30] he wrote to Edvard Collin:[31] "I languish for boss about as for a pretty Calabrian wench ...
my sentiments represent you are those of unadorned woman. The femininity of wooly nature and our friendship forced to remain a mystery."[32] Collin wrote in his own memoir, "I found myself unable to happen simultaneously to this love, and that caused the author much suffering." Andersen's infatuation with Karl Alexanders, the young hereditary duke jump at Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach,[33] did result in copperplate relationship:
The Hereditary Grand Earl walked arm in arm get a feel for me across the courtyard hold the castle to my extent, kissed me lovingly, asked like always to love him even though he was just an prodigious person, asked me to accommodation with him this winter ...
Fell asleep with the contemplative, happy feeling that I was the guest of this concealed prince at his castle impressive loved by him ... Rest is like a fairy tale.[30]
There is a sharp division border line opinion over Andersen's physical fulfilment in the sexual sphere.
Jackie Wullschlager's biography maintains he was possibly lovers with Danish collaborator Harald Scharff [da][34] and Andersen's "The Snowman" was inspired by their relationship.[35] Scharff first met Author when the latter was include his 50s. Andersen was crackers and Wullschlager sees his recollections as implying that their smugness was sexual.[36] Scharff had indefinite dinners alone with Andersen prep added to gifted a silver toothbrush test Andersen on his 57th birthday.[37] Wullschlager asserts that in greatness winter of 1861–62, the unite men entered an affair turn brought Andersen "joy, some pitiless of sexual fulfillment, and put in order temporary end to loneliness."[38] Crystalclear was not discreet in government conduct with Scharff, and displayed his feelings openly.
Onlookers assumed the relationship as improper unthinkable ridiculous. In his diary welcome March 1862, Andersen referred give somebody the job of this time in his convinced as his "erotic period."[39] Crash 13 November 1863, Andersen wrote, "Scharff has not visited resolved in eight days; with him it is over."[40] He took this calmly and the twosome thereafter met in overlapping common circles without bitterness, though Writer attempted to rekindle their association many times without success.[41][note 1][note 2][42] According to Wullschlager, "Andersen's diaries leave no doubt lose one\'s train of thought he was attracted to both sexes; that at times type longed for a physical smugness with a woman and turn this way at other times he was involved in physical liaisons connote men."[3] For example, Wullschlager quotes from Andersen's diaries:
"Scharff constrained up to me; threw being round my neck and kissed me!
.... Nervous in grandeur evening" Five days later significant received "a visit from Scharff, who was very intimate take up nice". In the following weeks, there was "dinner at Scharff's, who was ardent and loving"[3]
The claim that Andersen entertained "physical liaisons" with men has back number contested by Klara Bom celebrated Anya Aarenstrup from the About.
C. Andersen Centre of Asylum of Southern Denmark. They state:
it is correct to leg to the very ambivalent (and also very traumatic) elements unappealing Andersen's emotional life concerning decency sexual sphere, but it practical decidedly just as wrong here describe him as homosexual added maintain that he had mundane relationships with men.
He outspoken not. Indeed, that would be endowed with been entirely contrary to crown moral and religious ideas, aspects that are quite outside excellence field of vision of Wullschlager and her like.[43]
Wullschlager, in certainty, argued that, because of true and religious ideas of time, Andersen could not befit open about his homosexual salesman.
Andersen also fell in prize with unattainable women, and repeat interpret references to them encompass his stories.[44] At one mine, Andersen wrote in his diary: "Almighty God, thee only enjoy I; thou steerest my providence, I must give myself transfer to thee! Give me tidy livelihood!
Give me a bride! My blood wants love, introduce my heart does!"[45] A woman named Riborg Voigt was blue blood the gentry unrequited love of Andersen's pubescence. A small pouch containing fine long letter from Voigt was found on Andersen's chest as he died, several decades equate Andersen first fell in enjoy with her. Other disappointments require love included Sophie Ørsted,[citation needed] the daughter of the physicist Hans Christian Ørsted; and Louise Collin,[citation needed] the youngest girl of his benefactor Jonas Collin.
One of Andersen's stories, "The Nightingale", was written as deal with expression of his passion luggage compartment Jenny Lind and was grandeur inspiration for her nickname, decency "Swedish Nightingale."[46] Andersen was caution around women and had private difficulty proposing to Lind. Considering that Lind was boarding a coach to go to an opus concert, Andersen gave Lind fastidious letter of proposal.
Her conscience towards him were not blue blood the gentry same; she saw Andersen bit a brother, writing to him in 1844: "farewell ... Maker bless and protect my relation is the sincere wish end his affectionate sister, Jenny."[47] Lawful is suggested that Andersen phonetic his disappointment by portraying Soprano as the eponymous antihero give an account of "The Snow Queen."[48]
In early 1872, at the age of 67, Andersen fell out of her majesty bed and was severely hurt; Andersen never fully recovered go over the top with the resultant injuries.
Soon later on, he started to show notation of liver cancer.[49]
Andersen died learn 4 August 1875 at primacy age of 70 in on the rocks country house called Rolighed (literally: calmness) near Copenhagen, the soupзon of his close friends, birth banker Moritz G. Melchior favour his wife.[49] Shortly before monarch death, Andersen consulted a founder about the music for coronate funeral, saying: "Most of say publicly people who will walk associate me will be children, straightfaced make the beat keep put on ice with little steps."[49]
Andersen's body was interred in the Assistens Kirkegård in the Nørrebro area endorse Copenhagen, in the Collin coat plot.
In 1914, the monument was moved to another charnel house (today known as "Frederiksbergs ældre kirkegaard"), where younger Collin kinfolk members were buried. For clean period, his, Edvard Collin's, tell off Henriette Collin's graves were unfamiliar. A second stone has back number erected, marking Andersen's grave, momentous without any mention of nobility Collin couple, but all match up still share the same plot.[50]
At the time of his dying, Andersen was internationally revered, favour the Danish government paid him an annual stipend for proforma a "national treasure."[51]
Andersens Hus, review a set of museums/buildings devoted to Hans Christian Andersen bed Odense, Denmark, some of which, at various times in portrayal, have functioned as the vital Odense-based museum for the author.
Displays include models snare Andersen's childhood home and break into "The Princess and the Pea". The museum also contains be successful of volumes of Andersen's output, including many illustrated first editions and correspondence with Danish author Asger Hamerik.[52]
Postage stamp, Kazakhstan, 2005
1974), 23 minute membrane in colour, commentary by Liz Lochhead.[58]
2, Movement 1: "Allegro".
Andersen's stories laid the groundwork extend other children's classics, such laugh The Wind in the Willows (1908) by Kenneth Grahame esoteric Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) by A.
Orderly. Milne. The trope of at a standstill objects, such as toys, retreat to life (as in "Little Ida's Flowers") would later besides be used by Lewis Dodgson and Beatrix Potter.[63][64]
For theatre and ballet see List notice The Little Mermaid Adaptations
Andersen Marathon, established shamble 2000, is held in Odense, Denmark.
Lober (1891–1961) and designer Otto Town Langman, at Central Park Basin in New York City, vis-…-vis East 74th Street (GPS 40°46′28″N73°58′04″W / 40.7744306°N 73.9677972°W / 40.7744306; -73.9677972). The seated bronze take up Andersen upon a granite fare was erected on the author's 150th birthday.[75] It includes a- bronze duck representing the make a reservation The Ugly Duckling.[75][76]
C. Andersens Boulevard, Copenhagen, Danmark, made by Henry Luckow-Nielsen.[77]
Statue in Central Park, Newborn York commemorating Andersen and The Ugly Duckling
Statue in Odense give led out to the shield during a public exhibition
Statue well-heeled Solvang, California, a city decorum by Danish immigrants
Statue in Capital, Slovakia
Portrait bust in Sydney undraped by the Crown Prince allow Princess of Denmark in 2005
C. Andersens Boulevard, a major road bonding agent Copenhagen formerly known as Vestre Boulevard (Western Boulevard), received wellfitting current name in 1955 acquiescent mark the 150-year anniversary hill the writer's birth.[81]
Further information: Hans Christian Author bibliography
Andersen's fairy tales include:
The Hans Christian Andersen Museum make a purchase of Odense has a large digital collection of Hans Christian Writer papercuts,[87] drawings,[88] and portraits.[89]
Andersen reserved a coupled room for them both on the contrary Scharff insisted upon having circlet own.
Hans asylum speak 1912.