Jens Peter Jacobsen

Jens Peter Jacobsen was born in Thisted, in Jutland, in 1847, the eldest of the children of a wealthy merchant. A student in Copenhagen in 1868, he devoted himself to botany, studied the flora of the islands of Anholt and Læsø and translated Darwin's two great books into Danish. Stricken with tuberculosis in the early 1870s, he spent the winter of 1877-1878 in Montreux and the following one in Italy, and wrote slowly, in short daily sessions: two novels, a few short stories and poems published after his death. He died in his home town in 1885, aged thirty-eight.

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• NovelNiels LyhneJens Peter Jacobsen · 1880LiteraturePublic domain