Hans Christian Andersen was born in Odense, Denmark on 2 April 1805. He was an only child. His father, also named Hans, considered himself related to nobility (his paternal grandmother had told his father that their family had belonged to a higher social class, but investigations have disproved these stories). A persistent speculation suggests that Andersen was an illegitimate son of King Christian VIII, but this notion has been challenged. Hans Christian Andersen was baptised April 15, 1805 in Saint Hans Church (St John's Church) in Odense, Denmark. His certificate of birth was not drafted until November 1823, according to which six Godparents were present at the baptising ceremony: Madam Sille Marie Breineberg, Maiden Friederiche Pommer, Shuemaker Peder Waltersdorff, journeyman carpenter Anders Jørgensen, Hospital portner Nicolas Gomard, and Royal Hatter Jens Henrichsen Dorch.
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Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen | Early life
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Hans Christian Andersen
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Andersen's father, who had received an elementary school education, introduced his son to literature, reading to him the "Arabian Nights". Andersen's mother, Anne Marie Andersdatter, was an illiterate washerwoman. Following her husband's death in 1816, she remarried in 1818. Andersen was sent to a local school for poor children where he received a basic education and had to support himself, working as an apprentice to a weaver and, later, to a tailor. At fourteen, he moved to Copenhagen to seek employment as an actor. Having an excellent soprano voice, he was accepted into the Royal Danish Theatre, but his voice soon changed.
Hans Christian Andersen | Early life
A colleague at the theatre told him that he considered Andersen a poet. Taking the suggestion seriously, Andersen began to focus on writing. Jonas Collin, director of the Royal Danish Theatre, held great affection for Andersen and sent him to a grammar school in Slagelse, persuading King Frederick VI to pay part of the youth's education. Andersen had by then published his first story, "The Ghost at Palnatoke's Grave" (1822). Though not a stellar pupil, he also attended school at Elsinore until 1827.
Hans Christian Andersen | Early life
Hans Christian Andersen was born in Odense, Denmark on 2 April 1805. He was an only child. His father, also named Hans, considered himself related to nobility (his paternal grandmother had told his father that their family had belonged to a higher social class, but investigations have disproved these stories). A persistent speculation suggests that Andersen was an illegitimate son of King Christian VIII, but this notion has been challenged. Hans Christian Andersen was baptised April 15, 1805 in Saint Hans Church (St John's Church) in Odense, Denmark. His certificate of birth was not drafted until November 1823, according to which six Godparents were present at the baptising ceremony: Madam Sille Marie Breineberg, Maiden Friederiche Pommer, Shuemaker Peder Waltersdorff, journeyman carpenter Anders Jørgensen, Hospital portner Nicolas Gomard, and Royal Hatter Jens Henrichsen Dorch.
Hans Christian Andersen | Early life
Andersen was born on 9 July 1898 in Kristiania (now Oslo), and had a difficult childhood, the latter part of it in an orphanage. He was the son of construction worker Ole Andersen and Josefine Hansen. Soon after Johannes was born, Norway entered a period of economic difficulties, with little construction work available. This led to his father having to change jobs from mason to milkman. Johannes' mother became obsessed with religion.
Johannes S. Andersen | Early life
He grew up in Reinøya near Tromsø, then moved to Follebu at the age of nine and Lillehammer three years later. His parents were Pentecostals.
David Hanssen | Early life
Born in Asker, he grew up in Hamar.
Jan Frode Andersen | Introduction
Andersen was born on a farm at Ydby, Thisted County, the son of Anders Nielsen (1794–1862) and Ane Margrethe Didriksdatter (1797–1857). The farm was small and his father therefore had to supplement his income by transporting stone and gravel for the county's road construction. From an early age, Andersen had to take part in this work. He received no formal schooling but worked hard to acquire knowledge at home, strongly encouraged by his mother, and attended the writing school for petty officers during his Conscription years as a dragoon in 1855–57.
Niels Andersen (1835–1911) | Early life and education
Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) was a Danish author and poet. Hans Christian Andersen may also refer to:
Hans Christian Andersen (disambiguation) | Introduction
Hans Edward was born in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands. He dropped out of school when he was 16. He started working as an apprentice baker and finished training as a baker when he was only 20 years old even though he hated that job and had a passion for music. He used all of his free time in his own little home recording studio, composing and recording demos.
Hans Edward Andreasen | Early life
In his autobiography, the Danish composer Carl Nielsen describes his early life on the island of Funen until he moved to Copenhagen in 1884 in order to study at the Conservatory. It has been pointed out, however, that as he did not begin writing the account until prompted by his daughter in 1922, the story he tells may have been somewhat over-romanticised, reflecting Hans Christian Andersen's similarly difficult childhood, also on the island of Funen. The work does nevertheless provide a detailed account of the composer's early years and is a primary source of information about this period of his life.
Min Fynske Barndom | Book
Born into a working-class family in Nakskov, he trained as a shipbuilder before hiring on as a ship's carpenter in 1872. He came to Bangkok for the first time in 1873 and advanced to first mate and later master of "Thoon Kramom", a ship owned by Chulalongkorn, the king of Siam. Subsequently, he entered the freight business in East Asia and later Europe.
Hans Niels Andersen | Early life
He was born Hans Christian Viggo Hansen on 31 March 1859 in Copenhagen, the son of master brazier Peter Christian Hansen (1824–97) and Sara Marie Henriette Andersen (1824-84). He completed a brazier's apprenticeship in 1879 but had aspirations to become a painter. He, therefore, received preparatory training in painting under C. F. Andersen before attending the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts for three quarters of a year in 1882-83.
Hans Christian Viggo-Hansen | Early life and education
Between 1845 and 1864, H. C. Andersen lived at Nyhavn 67, Copenhagen, where a memorial plaque is placed on a building.
Hans Christian Andersen | Travelogues
Andersen was born in Copenhagen to Mourits Peter Andersen and Charlotte Emerentze Benedikte Nielsen.
Greta Andersen | Early and personal life
Remembered above all for his fairy tales, Hans Christian Andersen was born in Odense in 1805. It is thought his birthplace is the small yellow house on the corner of Hans Jensens Stræde and Bangs Boder in the old town. In 1908 the house was opened as the Hans Christian Andersen Museum. It documents his life from his childhood years as the son of a struggling shoemaker, to his schooling, career as an author, and later life, with artefacts providing an insight into his acquaintances and adventures. Andersen's childhood home is on Munkemøllestræde not far from the cathedral. He lived in the little half-timbered house from the age of two until he was 14.
Odense | Hans Christian Andersen connections
Hans Christian Andersen was born in Odense, Denmark on 2 April 1805 to Hans Andersen, a shoemaker, and Anne Marie Andersdatter. An only child, Andersen shared a love of literature with his father, who read him "The Arabian Nights" and the fables of Jean de la Fontaine. Together, they constructed panoramas, pop-up pictures and toy theatres, and took long jaunts into the countryside. Andersen's father died in 1816, and from then on, Andersen was left on his own. In order to escape his poor, illiterate mother, he promoted his artistic inclinations and courted the cultured middle class of Odense, singing and reciting in their drawing-rooms.
Thumbelina | Background
Andersen was a farmer's son from Lista who left his father's farm to his younger brother and went to sea. He enlisted as a gunner with the fluyt "Eensgezindheid" of the Dutch East India Company and made a three-year voyage from Amsterdam to Batavia between 1784 and 1787. Back in Norway he settled in Kristiansand, probably in 1805, marrying Helene Hansdatter Netland in 1807 and fathering three daughters.
Evert Andersen | Early life
He arrived in Rome in October 1834. Andersen's travels in Italy were reflected in his first novel, a fictionalized autobiography titled "The Improvisatore" (), published in 1835 to instant acclaim.
Hans Christian Andersen | Early work
Andersen was born on 26 October 1844 in Huseby, Annisse Parish, the son of farmer Anders Pedersen (c. 1817–78) and Ane Sørensdatter (c. 1821–1904). He initially apprenticed as a joiner but the painter P. C. Skovgaard later arranged for him to apprentice as a painter in Frederiksværk. He supplemented his sparse schooling at Classen's School where he was soon noted for his handling of physical devices.
Jens Poul Andersen | Early life and education
A son of farmer Therkild Nielsen and Karen (née Hendriksen), Therkildsen learnt to draw at the technical school in Horsens after which he attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1868-1874. For some time, he received private tuition from Constantin Hansen.
Hans Michael Therkildsen | Early life
He was born in Namdalseid. He was the grandson of politician, Hans Andersen Barlien.
Hans Konrad Foosnæs | Personal life
Hansen was born in Copenhagen, the son of merchant C. K. Hansen (1813–68) and Cathrine Marie Pöhls (1814–95).
Johan Hansen (1838–1913) | Early life and education
He was the son of Frederik Christian Danneskiold-Samsøe (1722–1778) and his second wife Friederike Louisa von Kleist (1747–1814). When he was just over 3.5 years old, he lost his father. In 1785, the poet and priest Christian Andersen Lund became his supervisor.
Christian Conrad Danneskiold-Samsøe | Early life and education
Aarup-Andersen was born on 6 December 1977. He earned a master's degree in economics from the University of Copenhagen in 2002.
Jacob Aarup-Andersen | Early life
Born in Ordrup to the north of Copenhagen, Aagaard Andersen attended the Arts and Crafts School (Kunsthåndværkersole) from 1936 to 1939. Between 1940 and 1946, he studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts under Aksel Jørgensen and Gunnar Biilmann Petersen. He also spent a short period studying etching at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts. From 1946 to 1950, he studied in Paris under the sculptor Ossip Zadkine, after which he travelled to Italy (1951) and England (1952–53).
Gunnar Aagaard Andersen | Early life and education
After the German occupation of Norway in 1940, when Andersen was 17 years old, all organized sports competitions were halted as a result of the sports boycott against the Nazi regime. Like others of his generation, he had to wait until the winter of 1946 to take up his sports career again.
Hjalmar Andersen | Early life
Hækkerup was born in Frederiksberg, Denmark. He was the son of former Minister of Economy Per Hækkerup and former Member of Parliament Grete Hækkerup. He graduated from the Frederiksborg Gymnasium (State School) in 1964 and received a Master of Arts in Economics from the University of Copenhagen in 1973.
Hans Hækkerup | Early life
Heg was born at Haugestad in the community of Lierbyen in Lier, Buskerud, Norway on December 21, 1829. He was the eldest of the four children of the innkeeper Even Hansen Heg (1790–1850) and his wife Sigrid "Siri" Olsdatter Kallerud Heg (1799–1842). The family moved to America in 1840, settling in the Muskego Settlement in Wisconsin. Hans Heg was eleven years old when his family arrived in Muskego. He soon earned a reputation for himself as being a gifted boy.
Hans Christian Heg | Early life, immigration, and education
This is a list of published works by Hans Christian Andersen. The list has been supplemented with a few important posthumous editions of his works; the year given in each entry refers to the first Danish edition. They are all in the public domain because Andersen died over 100 years ago.
Hans Christian Andersen bibliography | Introduction
Rasmus Andersen was born in 1861 at Ørting, near Horsens, the son of Niels Andersen and Johanne Mortensdatter Andersen. He trained as a wood carver. He attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1877 to 1884 and trained to become a sculptor at Wilhelm Bissen's studio.
Rasmus Andersen | Early life and education
Christen Ager-Hanssen was born in Halden, Norway. He is the son of Norwegian Industrialist and nuclear physicist Henrik Ager-Hanssen (1930-2004) and politician Bjørg Ager-Hanssen. He grew up in Halden, Oslo and Stavanger and later moved to Sweden where he began working for IBM and Kinnevik in Stockholm.
Christen Ager-Hanssen | Early life
Hirschi was born and raised in Samedan, Switzerland. He learned seven languages before graduating high school and five Scandinavian languages in college. Hirschi studied literature at the University of Gothenburg.
Hans M. Hirschi | Early life and education
Born in Odder, Denmark. He lived in Skanderborg, Denmark, until the age of 7 when him and his family moved to Trysil, Norway.
Morten Ring Christensen | Early life
Aksel Johan Andersen was born in Græsvig in Onsø, a peninsula and then a municipality in Østfold, as the son of village shopkeeper Ole Andersen (1849–1883) and Randine Andersen (1849–1900). His father died when he was six years old, and the family moved to Fredrikstad, an important port for timber export. In 1887 the family moved to Kristiania. He adopted the name Gresvig when he was a candidate for confirmation. He married Ragnhild Helseth in 1914.
Aksel Gresvig | Early and personal life
The son of a farmer, he was born in Kerteminde on the island of Funen. After training as a house painter (1900–1904), he attended the Technical School in Aalborg (1903–1907) before studying art at Kristian Zahrtmann's Kunstnernes Studieskoler in Copenhagen (1907–1908). From 1908 to 1910, he was a student with Johan Rohde. He travelled to Paris in 1911 with William Scharff and Olaf Rude.
Axel P. Jensen | Early life
Kristiansen was born in , Denmark, the 10th child of an impoverished family in Jutland. Although in poverty, he was able to receive a basic high-school education. He turned to work in a factory, then eventually transitioned to woodwork and afterwards a master-carpenter.
Ole Kirk Christiansen | Early years
In Andersen's early life, his private journal records his refusal to have sexual relations. Andersen often fell in love with unattainable women, and many of his stories are interpreted as references. At one point, he wrote in his diary: "Almighty God, thee only have I; thou steerest my fate, I must give myself up to thee! Give me a livelihood! Give me a bride! My blood wants love, as my heart does!" A girl named Riborg Voigt was the unrequited love of Andersen's youth. A small pouch containing a long letter from Voigt was found on Andersen's chest when he died several decades after he first fell in love with her, and after, he presumably fell in love with others.
Hans Christian Andersen | Love life
He was born in Copenhagen into the poor household of shoemaker and leatherworker Matthias Hansen and his wife Anna Marie, who had been nursemaid for Prince Christian VII. He was the youngest son in the family, and there was not much money to spend on his upbringing. His parents sent him to train in business, but he wanted to draw. His mother used her connections at the royal court, and found some influential people who interested themselves in his education and training. He was brought into training as a bricklayer, and at the same time he attended classes at the Academy of Art starting in 1766.
Christian Frederik Hansen | Early life and education
After completing his stonemason's apprenticeship, he set out as a journeyman in 1878 to travel Europe. He lived in Rome between 1881 and 1887 where he studied at the Art Academy.
Hans Peder Pedersen-Dan | Early life and education
Hansson was born in Kristiania to judge Michael Hansson and Minnie Christensen. He married Jette Emilie Gad in 1939. He was a brother of Knut Mørch Hansson.
Arthur Mørch Hansson | Personal life
A. M. Andersen was born in Denmark, the son of Anders Jørgensen. He was one of seven children. After fulfilling his required military service, he became a pastor.
Anton Marius Andersen | Background
Andersen's childhood home () is at 3-5 Munkemøllestræde, not far from the cathedral. He lived in the little half-timbered house from the age of two until he was 14. Opened as a museum in 1930, the house contains an exhibition of the cobbling tools used by his father and other items based on Andersen's own descriptions.
Hans Christian Andersen Museum | "H.C. Andersen's Childhood Home"
Johansen was born in 1939 in Denmark.
Søren Johansen | Early life
Hansen was born on 4 February 1806, the son of carpenter Christopher Bagnæs and Anne Stephensen (c. 1775-1854). He grew up in poverty after the early death of his father. He had to care for himself from the age of 8, working first in J. C. Modeweg's textile factory and then as a cobble-Layer at Nyboder. His situation improved moderately when his mother remarried Peter Antoni, a laborer, enabling him to attend Holmen's School until beginning a chair-maker's apprentice at 14. At the age of 20, when he completed his apprenticeship, he changed his name to Hansen for reasons that remain unknown.
Christopher Bagnæs Hansen | Early life and education
Hansen was born in Reykjavík, Iceland, and moved to the United States when he was five years old. He lived in Maine until age eleven, when his family moved to Austin, Texas, where he attended both Austin High School and the University of Texas at Austin. He majored in English and mathematics as an undergraduate and then went to graduate school in Scandinavian Studies and English.
Gunnar Hansen | Early life
Sorensen emigrated from Denmark to the United States with his parents when he was 4. He first worked as a surveyor's assistant and then apprenticed at the Jewett Stove Works in Buffalo, New York as a patternmaker and foundryman.
Charles E. Sorensen | Early life
He was born in Skanderborg. He grew up in Rynkeby in the Faaborg-Midtfyn Municipality in the Region of Southern Denmark. He went to a gymnasium school in Vollsmose in Odense, the third largest city in Denmark. Odense is known for Hans Christian Andersen. He gained a BSc in Economics in 1985, and an MSc in Economics and Business Administration in 1987 from Odense University.
Peder Tuborgh | Early life
Adamson was born in Varde, Denmark.
Hans Christian Adamson | Personal history
Andersen was born in Bergen, Norway, of parents Anders Andersen from Lærdal and Helene Monsine Monsen from Bergen. He emigrated as an infant with his family to Newport, Rhode Island the following year. As a young man in Newport, Andersen began his work as a sculptor and learned to mingle among the city's wealthy elite, including serving as an art instructor for Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. In 1893, Andersen traveled to Europe to study art and eventually settled in Rome. There he ingratiated himself with other artists as well as a number of wealthy expatriate patrons and pursued his work.
Hendrik Christian Andersen | Background
Dahl came from a simple background – his father was a modest fisherman in Bergen, Norway – and he would later look back at his youth with bitterness. He regretted that he never had a "real teacher" in his childhood and, despite all his spectacular success, he believed that if he had been more fortunate in his birth, he would have achieved even more than he had.
Johan Christian Dahl | Early life
He was born at Ljan, and he had an older sister Aase. Their mother was a school teacher of hand craft, and the father was son of a cotter. Jens Chr. Hauge's father was a former non-commissioned officer, that worked in an insurance company.
Jens Christian Hauge | Early life
Hans Andersen Brendekilde (7 April 1857 – 30 March 1942) was a Danish painter.
H. A. Brendekilde | Introduction
Hans Christian Andersen (24 February 1914 – 20 March 1993) was a Danish equestrian. He competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics and the 1956 Summer Olympics.
Hans Christian Andersen (equestrian) | Introduction
Like his parents and sister, Wulff was a close friend of the writer Gans Christian Andersen. They exchanged many letters and Andersen stayed in his apartment at Amaliegade 37 in Copenhagen from 27 June to 24 August 1848.
Christian Wulff (1810–1856) | Personal life
He was born in Blyth, Northumberland, son of Norwegian parents.
Albert Juliussen | Early life
He was born in Farsø, a village in North Jutland, Denmark, as the son of a veterinary surgeon and he grew up in a rural environment. While studying medicine at the University of Copenhagen he worked as a writer to fund his studies. After three years of studying he chose to change careers and devote himself fully to literature.
Johannes V. Jensen | Early years
Andersen followed this success with a theatrical piece, "Love on St. Nicholas Church Tower", and a short volume of poems. He made little progress in writing and publishing immediately following the issue of these poems but he did receive a small travel grant from the king in 1833. This enabled him to set out on the first of many journeys throughout Europe. At Jura, near Le Locle, Switzerland, Andersen wrote the story "Agnete and the Merman". The same year he spent an evening in the Italian seaside village of Sestri Levante, the place which inspired the title of "The Bay of Fables".
Hans Christian Andersen | Early work
He was born in Rome, the son of portrait painter Hans Hansen. The family soon relocated to Vienna, where Constanze Mozart, the widow of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, became godmother at his christening. Within his first year, the family moved to Copenhagen, where he was raised.
Constantin Hansen | Early life
Hanscom was born in 1819 in Rochester, New York to parents Sarah and George George Hansom.
Alfred H. Hanscom | Early life
Andersen was born in Ringsaker in Hedmark, Norway. He was one of ten children born to Christen Andersen (1825–93) and Antonette Krogvig (1840–1932). His father was a trader and later bailiff. When Andersen was nine years old, the family moved to Tysnes in Hardanger. In 1878, Andersen entered Bergen Cathedral School. He later attended school in Hamar and took his student exams in 1885. He attended the University of Kristiania until 1892, but did not graduate. He subsequently became an office worker in Hamar. Andersen made his literary debut in 1897 with the historical novel collection "I Cancelliraadens dage", a collection of tales from the early 1800s in the Norwegian Uplands.
Tryggve Andersen | Biography
Born in Copenhagen on 13 May 1860, Johanne Agnete Theresia Betzonich was the daughter of the writer Georg Betzonich (1829–1901) and Christiansine Nicoline Møller (1833–1923). In 1882,
Johanne Pedersen-Dan | Early life
A very early fairy tale by Andersen, "The Tallow Candle" (), was discovered in a Danish archive in October 2012. The story, written in the 1820s, was about a candle that did not feel appreciated. It was written while Andersen was still in school and dedicated to one of his benefactors. The story remained in that family's possession until it turned up among other family papers in a local archive. In 1829, Andersen enjoyed considerable success with the short story "A Journey on Foot from Holmen's Canal to the East Point of Amager." Its protagonist meets characters ranging from Saint Peter to a talking cat.
Hans Christian Andersen | Early work
Born near Nørre Aaby on Funen, he was the son of a well-to-do farmer. He began studying painting under Vilhelm Kyhn in Copenhagen before attending the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts where he graduated in 1892. He then spent a couple of years at Zahrtmann's School in Copenhagen before completing his studies at J.F. Willumsen's school in Paris. As a student, he travelled widely to Germany, Italy and France. He changed his name from Olsen to Aabye in 1904.
Jørgen Aabye | Early life
In 1876, a writer named George Hanson placed John Hanson in his family tree of Swedish-Americans descended from four Swedish brothers who emigrated to New Sweden in 1642. This story was often repeated over the next century, but scholarly research in the late 20th century showed that John Hanson was not related to those Swedish-American Hansons.
John Hanson | Early life
Stilling-Andersen was born on 24 June 1858 in Ølgod, the son of farmerJens Mathias Bollerup Andersen (1822–68) and Marie Cathrine Mouridsen (1827–79). He changed his last name from Andersen to StillingAndersen in 10 July 1912. He was brought up in a prominent Grundtvigian. He was initially trained as a farmer but was from 1877 also educated in the dairy industry. He attended Tune Landboskole in 1880–81.
Jacob Stilling-Andersen | Early life and education
He was born in Halse as a son of shipmaster and merchant Niels Clemetsen Nielsen (1795–1845) and his wife Andrea Marie Møller (1802–1866). He grew up in Mandal in Vest-Agder county, Norway. He lived most of his childhood and adolescence without a father. He received some tuition from a traveling drawing teacher and traveled to Copenhagen to study in 1854.
Amaldus Nielsen | Early life
In 1981 he moved to Copenhagen to pursue a career in arts.
Erik A. Frandsen | Early life
Seidelin was born on 14 May 1776 in Helsingør, the son of pastor Hans Hansen Seidelin and Sophie Davidsdatter.
Hans Seidelin (1665–1740) | Early life
Valdemar Andersen was born into a working-class family in Copenhagen in 1875. He apprenticed as a painter with C. C. Møllmann from 1891. He also attended Copenhagen Technical School (H. Grønvold) and studied one semester at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in autumn 1894.
Valdemar Andersen (artist) | Early life
Hans Georg Andersen (May 12, 1919 – April 25, 1994) was an Icelandic diplomat.
Hans Georg Andersen | Introduction
Clemmensen was born in Copenhagen on 18 February 1869, the son of Sergant Mads Clemmensen (1831–1915) and Sidsel Clemmensen ("née" Albrechtsen; 1829–1909). He graduated from Østre Borgerdydskole in 1887. He taught Latin and French privately in 1890–1899.
Christian Albert Clemmensen | Early life and education
Frederiksen was born on 23 March 1840 at Fuglsang Manor on Lolland, the son of Hohannes D. Friderichsen (1791-1861) and Maria Hansen (1811-1901). He graduated from Sorø Academy in1857 and then enrolled at the University of Copenhagen where he studied political sciences ("statsvidenskab"). He won the university's gold medal in 1859 for a thesis on the influence of grain prices on wage levels. He graduated in 1862.
Niels Christian Frederiksen | Early life and education
Hansen was born on 25 February 1843 at Kragsbjerg, near Odense the son of Christian Henrik Hansen (1797-1868) and Bertha Marie Ammentorp (1805-1848). He attended Slagelse Realskole in Slagelse and then Ålborg Latinskole in Aalborg.
Christian Ditlev Ammentorp Hansen | Early life
Born in Horsens, Denmark, Ingwersen studied Scandinavian literature at the University of Copenhagen, Stockholm University and the University of Oslo. When in Oslo, he met an American student, Faith Boswell Sloniger, whom he married in Tybjerg, near Næstved, Denmark, in 1961.
Niels Ingwersen | Early life
Hans Jorgen Fjellestad was born on May 2, 1968. He studied music composition and improvisation at University of California, San Diego in San Diego, California.
Hans Fjellestad | Early life
The birthplace () is located in the building which is thought his birthplace (not conclusively confirmed), a small yellow house on the corner of 45 Hans Jensens Stræde and Bangs Boder street in the old town. In 1908, the house was reopened as the H.C. Andersen Museum. It documents his life from his childhood years as the son of a shoemaker to his schooling, career as an author, and later life, with artifacts providing an insight into his acquaintances and adventures. The birthplace is also known as H.C. Andersen's House, after the plaque at the front door .
Hans Christian Andersen Museum | "H.C. Andersen's Birthplace"
Hans Niels Andersen (10 September 1852 – 30 December 1937) was a Danish shipping magnate, businessman, diplomat and founder of the East Asiatic Company.
Hans Niels Andersen | Introduction
Hendrik Christian Andersen (April 15, 1872 in Bergen – December 19, 1940 in Rome) was a Norwegian-American sculptor, painter and urban planner.
Hendrik Christian Andersen | Introduction
He married the Danish singer Johanna Elisabeth Morthorst who were active at the theatre in Copenhagen in 1784–1827. Dahlén accepted a young Hans Christian Andersen as a ballet student in spite of his lack of talent. Andersen was also a frequent guest in Dahlén's home at Badstuestræde 18: He describes the relationship in "The Fairy Tale of My Life":
Carl Dahlén | Personal life
God bless and protect my brother is the sincere wish of his affectionate sister, Jenny". Andersen certainly experienced same-sex attraction as well: he wrote to Edvard Collin: "I languish for you as for a pretty Calabrian wench ... my sentiments for you are those of a woman. The femininity of my nature and our friendship must remain a mystery." Collin, who preferred women, wrote in his own memoir: "I found myself unable to respond to this love, and this caused the author much suffering." Likewise, the infatuations of the author for the Danish dancer Harald Scharff and Carl Alexander, the young hereditary duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, did not result in any relationships.
Hans Christian Andersen | Love life
Eriksson was born in , Västerås, Sweden. His family moved to , Adelsö, when he was six years old. At the age of thirteen, Eriksson moved back to Västerås, where he lived until his church confirmation.
Frans Otto Eriksson | Early life
Sørensen was born September 7, 1901 in Antwerp. In 1914 Sørensen moved to Norway from where his parents were originally.
Sigurd Torbjørn Sørensen | Early life
Rønnenkamp was born in Flensburg in Schleswig-Holstein. He was the son of merchant and hospital superintendent Nicolaj Christian Rønnenkamp (1757–1832,) by his first wife Catharina (Tine) Rønnenkamp née Todsen (1763–87). He was the brother of Hanna Rönnenkamp Müller (1783-1868).
Christian Rønnenkamp | Early life and education
Jørgensen grew up in Morud on the Danish island of Funen, attended high school at Nordfyns Gymnasium, and university at the University of Aarhus, from which he holds a master's degree in Political Science. He also studied Political Science at the University of Washington.
Dan Jørgensen | Early life
Martensen was born in a middle-class Lutheran family in Flensburg, in the Duchy of Schleswig (now Germany), as their only son. At that time Schleswig was a duchy between Holstein and Denmark. He grew up in a German-speaking society, while his father who was a schoolmaster, writer and sea-captain preferred to use Danish. Consequently the young Martensen upbrought in a multicultural situation and reconciliation of different cultures became his one of central interests through his life. He studied theology in Copenhagen, and later was ordained in the Danish Church. From 1834 till 1836 he travelled foreign countries. He visited several cities including Berlin, Munich, Vienna and Paris.
Hans Lassen Martensen | Early life
Erik Christian Haugaard (April 13, 1923 – June 4, 2009) was a Danish-born American writer, best known for children's books and for his translations of the works of Hans Christian Andersen.
Erik Christian Haugaard | Introduction
He is the son of handball player Bjørg Andersen. Andersen became a German citizen in 1993. His son, Niklas, is also a former Bundesliga player. Andersen is married and lives in Bad Reichenhall in Bavaria, Germany.
Jørn Andersen | Personal life
He was born to a German mother and a British father, and grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, where he went to the University of British Columbia.
Hans Snook | Early life
Andersen was born in Stavanger to Emil Laurentzius Andersen and Ingeborg Bertine Osmondsdatter Udvig. He married librarian Sissel Aanderaa in 1957.
Bjarne Andersen | Personal life
Andrew Christian Peter Willatzen was born in North Germany in 1876 and came to the United States in 1900. Born with the last name "Willatzen", he changed the spelling to Willatsen c. 1918 due to anti-German sentiment during World War I. This may also explain the fact that later he always identified with the Danish in his background.
Andrew Willatsen | Early life and emigration
He was the son of the kammerjunker Jakob von Benzon (who owned estates in Christiansdal, Tirsbæk and Ågård) and Sophie Catharine Holm, an opera singer at the Danish Royal Theatre. This made him part of the prominent Benzon family at Funen. He took up an artistic career relatively late, after encouragement from an uncle, and studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen from 1833 to 1836, though he won no medals there. In 1835 he painted a portrait of Hans Christian Andersen (now in the Museum of National History at Frederiksborg Castle) – its subject called it "quite atrocious", though Weger used an engraving of it as the frontispiece for the edition of Andersen's writings which he published in Leipzig.
Christian Albrecht von Benzon | Early life
Andreas Bjørn was born in Skælskør to Mads Andersen Bjørn and Karen Pedersdatter. He settled as a merchant in Copenhagen in 1730 where he soon achieved success in the timber trade. From 1731 he supplied the Royal Danish Navy with provisions, cannons and large quantities of timber and from 1739 he also supplied the Royal Danish Army with cannons.
Andreas Bjørn | Early life
Hans Christian Petersen grew up in the southernmost city of Christianssand and graduated from the local cathedral school in 1810. He studied law at the University of Copenhagen and got his law degree there on 14 January 1814—the day the Peace Treaty of Kiel was signed, thus ending four hundred years of Danish-Norwegian union. Petersen now wanted to return home to participate in the fight for independence, but the sea route was blocked and on Swedish territory he would be demanded to swear allegiance to the Swedish King. Together with several others – one of them his later wife – he crossed by rowing boat to Sweden, before continuing over land to Christiania disguised as a coachman.
Hans Christian Petersen | Early life
Johan Kobborg was born in Odense, Denmark into an artistic family; his mother is a former showgirl and actress and his brother is an actor. From a young age, he trained as a tenor, but left singing to take up dancing.
Johan Kobborg | Early life
Brendekilde grew up in Braendekilde, a small village close to Odense on the island of Funen. He was a distant relation of Hans Christian Andersen, the famous writer of fairytales, and like his relation he had a very poor childhood. The fathers of both were clog makers. At the age of 4 Brendekilde left his parents and lived with his grandparents until the age of 10 when he made his living as a shepherd, getting board and lodging. At school a teacher discovered his ability to carve animals in wood and from 1871 until 1874 he was apprenticed to the wood carver and stonemason Wilhelm Hansen in Odense.
H. A. Brendekilde | Biography
Bruun was born in Fredericia, the son of Bertel Bruun (1767–1827) and Magdalene Barbara Brøchner (1768–1831). He received a commercial education in his father's company. His father was the owner of several successful factories in Viborg and Fredericia.
Hans Brøchner Bruun | Early life and education
Born in Copenhagen, he studied ceramics under C. Albert, attended the Technical School in Copenhagen in preparation for the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (1881–82). He also attended the Académie Julian in Paris under Henri Chapu from 1885.
Karl Hansen Reistrup | Early life
He also visited Constantinople before returning to Italy. In 1822 he returned to Denmark by way of France and London.
Jørgen Hansen Koch | Early life and education
Andersen was born on 6 Nov 1914 in Logan, Utah to Hans Andersen and Mynoa Richardson, and spent his earliest years on a dry farm in Blue Creek, Utah. He was baptized by his father on May 6, 1923, and the next year his family moved to Virden, New Mexico to be closer to his Andersen and Richardson grandparents in the Gila Valley. His paternal grandfather, Andrew Andersen, was from Otterup, Denmark and his paternal grandmother, Janet Henderson, was from Haddington, Scotland. His paternal grandparents both emigrated to America after joining the LDS Church. After stints in Utah and Mexico, Andrew and Janet settled in Virden, where Andersen's parents, Hans and Mynoa, moved the family in 1923-24.
H. Verlan Andersen | Early life and education
Schioldann was born on 21 January 1843 in Copenhagen, the son of architect and master mason J.N. Schioldann and wife née Christensen. He followed in his father's footsteps, apprenticing as a mason.
Albert Nicolai Schioldann | Early life and education