Friday Funday: Hans Christian Anderson,
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blog is on Author Hans Christian Anderson.
Born in Odense Denmark
on April 2nd 1805 to parents Hans Anderson and Anne Marie
Andersdatter, Hans Christian Anderson spent his childhood going to
school and as he got older working as an apprentice weaver then later
on Tailor. At fourteen years old Anderson moved to Copenhagen seeking
employment as an Actor. He was accepted into the Royal Danish Theatre
due to his excellent Soprano voice but his voice changed. A colleague
told him he considered Anderson a poet pushing him to focus on
writing.
Anderson was sent to a
grammar school in Slagelse by the Royal Danish Theatre director Jonas
Collin holding him in great affection, an affection which managed to
persuade the then king Frederick sixth to pay part of his education.
In his later years Anderson stated his years on school were some of
the worst of his life, at one school Anderson was abused by the
headmaster -whose home he was staying in- stating it was to improve
his character. The faculty too had attempted to discourage him from
writing which drove Anderson into a depression.
Andersons initial
attempts at fairy tales were revisions of his childhood stories which
were not met with recognition and both instalments (released 1837 and
1838) sold poorly the stories included The Tinderbox, The Little
Mermaid, Thumbalina, The Princess and The Pea and The Emperor's New
Clothes. However at the same time Anderson had written two rather
successful novels O.T. Released in 1836 and Only a Fiddler released
in 1837. the latter book was reviews by a young Soren Kierkegaard.
After a visit to
Sweden in 1837 Anderson wrote a poem inspired by Scandinavian and in
1839 after a visit to the island of Funen Anderson wrote another poem
Jeg Er En Skandinav (“I am a Scandinavian”) in an attempt to
capture the beauty of the Nordic spirit. Composer Otto Lindblad sett
the poem to music and the composition was published in January 1840
its popularity peaked five years later after which it was seldom
sung.
Anderson returned to
fairy tales in 1838 with another collection Fairy tales told for
children which included The Steadfast tin Soldier and the Wild Swan,
the book was followed by 1844s release of New Fairy tales; first
volume first collection with included the nightingale and the ugly
duckling and 1845s release of /New Fairy Tales First Volume Second
Collection which included the Snow Queen and the Little Match Girl.
Later in 1845 Anderson had a breakthrough with his story the little
mermaid appearing in the periodical Bentleys Miscellany. Anderson
would continue to write fairy story instalments until 1872.
Andersons first
Travelogue In Sweden was released in 1851 to wide acclaim, it
was followed by several other travelogues due to Anderson being a
keep traveller. Anderson visited England twice both in 1`847 and 1857
managing to meet Charles Dickens on the prior visit and staying five
weeks with him in the latter much to his families dismay. Anderson
was asked to leave and Dickens gently fazed Anderson out, Anderson
having enjoyed his visit with the dickens, spent many years
afterwards very confused at the lack of responses to his letters.
Anderson never
married, although he fell in love several times with both men and
women though his love was often unrequited and occasionally
misjudged. It is assumed that his emotional experiences as a young
man skewered his view of life concerning the sexual sphere.
In early 1872 Anderson
fell out of bed hurting himself severely, he never fully recovered
and started showing signs of liver cancer. Anderson later died on
August 4th 1875 in his house called Rolighed (Means
Calmness) before his death Anderson consulted a composer about his
funeral music requesting the music was appropriate for little steps
due to the people who would follow his Coffin being children.
Anderson was buried in the Collins family plot in Assisrtens
Kirkegarrd and until 1914 a stone marked his interment with the
family. A secondary stone was placed on the grave later on but
doesn't mention Edvard and Henriette Collin, who are still buried
with him.
We can definitely
thank Hans Christina Anderson for the stories he both wrote and
revised from his childhood. Many of our modern fairy tales and
stories are based on his own works and as such we would be lesser
people for not reading them.
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