Karl Adolph Gjellerup

Karl Gjellerup was born in 1857 at the parsonage of Roholte, the son of a pastor; fatherless at the age of three, he was brought up by a cousin of his mother, the pastor Johannes Fibiger. Qualified in theology in 1878, he did not become a pastor: Darwin and Georg Brandes had led him to declare himself an atheist. He broke with Brandes's circle in 1885, married Eugenia Heusinger in 1887, settled in Dresden in 1892 and wrote in German from 1894. In 1917 he shared the Nobel Prize in Literature with Henrik Pontoppidan and died in Klotzsche, near Dresden, in 1919.

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• NovelThe Pilgrim KamanitaDer Pilger KamanitaKarl Adolph Gjellerup · 1906LiteraturePublic domain