Henrik Pontoppidan

Henrik Pontoppidan was born in 1857 in Fredericia, the son of a pastor, and grew up in Randers. In 1873 he went to study engineering in Copenhagen, travelled to Switzerland in 1876, then gave up his studies to write. In 1880 he taught at the folk high school in Jørlunde, run by his brother, and the following year married a young peasant woman, Mette Marie Hansen; he remarried in 1892. In 1917 he shared the Nobel Prize in Literature with Karl Gjellerup, and he died in 1943 in Ordrup, near Copenhagen.

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• NovelThe Promised LandDet forjættede landHenrik Pontoppidan · 1895LiteraturePublic domain