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Hans Christian Andersen , (April 2nd 1805 with Odense, Denmark - August 4th 1875) was an author and poet Danish, famous for its news and its “Conte S of Fée S”.

Biography

He was the son of a young sick shoe-maker and his older wife. The family lived in a small part. Hans Christian showed an early imagination, which was encouraged by the indulgence of his/her parents and the superstition of his mother. His/her father died in 1816 and it was entirely delivered to itself. It ceased going to school. It built itself a small theater toy and remained at his place to manufacture clothing for its Marionnette S, and reading all works which it could borrow, among which those of Ludvig Holberg and William Shakespeare. He writes to the little girl with the matches while remembering the unhappy childhood of his mother in a poor family. Wishing to become singer of opera, it went to Copenhagen in September 1819. There it was taken for insane, rejected theaters and almost reduced to the food shortage, but it was taken in friendship by the musicians Christoph Weyse and Siboni, and later by the poet Frederik Hoegh Guldberg (1771 - 1852). Its voice weakened, but it was allowed like apprentice dancer with the royal theater. Not doing anything, it lost the favors of Guldberg, but found a new owner in the person of Jonas Collin, which became a friend with life.

The king Frederic VI, interested by this strange boy, dealt with it and sent it during a few years to the school of grammar of Slagelse. It published its first volume, the Fantôme with the tomb of Palnatoke (1822), before to have begun its studies there. Very poor student and little disciplined, it remained in Slagelse in another school with Elseneur until in 1827; these years, he said, were darkest and bitter of his life. Hake finally agree to regard it as educated and sent it to Copenhagen.

In 1829 it obtained a considerable success with a fantastic novel entitled a voyage to foot since the Holmen channel up to the point of Amager , and it published in the same season a joke and a collection of poems. It started to have some notoriety at the time when his/her friends started to despair that nothing good never occurs of its eccentricity and its early promptness. In 1833, it accepted small a money of the king, and made its first long voyage in Europe. With the Locle, in French-speaking Switzerland it wrote Agnès and the Triton ( Agnete og Havmanden ), and in October 1834, it arrived at Rome. In 1835 its first novel the Improviser , left and obtained a real success. The same year, in 1835, first episodes of immortal the " Contes" Danish (: Eventyr ) was published. Other parts, supplementing the first volume, appeared in 1836 and 1837. The value of these stories was not immediately perceived, and those were hardly sold. A novel " O.T." (1836), and a volume of sketches " In Sweden " , was more success, and in 1837 it produced best its news, " Only a bonimenteur" .

It turned to the theater where it obtained only one transitory success, but showed its true genius in the charming entertainment of 1840, the " Album without image" .

Andersen was a large traveller. Longest of its voyages, in 1840-1841, took it along through the Germany (where it took for the first time the train), the Italy, Malta, and the Greece until Constantinople. The voyage of the return was made by the Black Sea, by going up the the Danube. The account of this experiment constitutes " Bazaar of a poète" (1842), in general regarded as the best of its books of voyage.

However fame of its " Contes" had increased; one second series began in 1838, a third in 1845. It is advisable however to specify that those were not intended for youth, but thereafter they were perceived like such. Indeed, in spite of its extreme sensitivity Hans Christian Andersen forever have the ambition to write for the children.

Andersen was now famous in all Europe, although he does not enjoy equal famous in his own country. In June 1847 it went for the first time in England, knowing the triumph there. Charles Dickens itself accompanied it for its departure. Little time afterwards, Dickens published " David Copperfield " , in which one sees in his character Uriah Heep the portrait of Andersen.

It continued to publish, wishing to affirm itself as novelist and playwright, forsaking the " Contes" , in the composition of which really its genius opens out, it thus continued to write the new ones. In 1847, then in 1848, two new volumes appeared. After a long silence, it published in 1857 another news " To be or not être" . In 1863 after another voyage, it published another of its “books of voyage”: " In Spain " .

Its " Contes" continued to appear in episodes until in 1872. In Christmas of this same year, its last tales were published. Next spring, Andersen was wounded seriously while falling from its bed. It did not recover and died from there quietly in its Rolighed house, close to Copenhagen on August 4th, 1875. It is buried with the Cimetière Assistens, in Copenhagen.

Hans Christian Andersen is also known for her paper cuttings, whose extremely refined and whimsical reasons are often taken again in Denmark, especially for the Christmas decorations. It also drew, thus testifying to what it saw during its voyages. But the principal ambition of Hans Christian Andersen was to be " Digter" (i.e. " poète" in Danish). H.C. Andersen was also amazed by the technical innovations of its time, often giving them a big role in its tales. The railroad, the public lighting, the Télégraphie make in particular appearances with the turning of its texts.

Name

The majority of the French sources (English or German) use the name of “Hans Christian Andersen”, but in Denmark or in Scandinavia it is rather known like “H.C. Andersen”. The use of only initial of the first name (a little as American with the second first name make it) is largely allowed in Denmark, even if there is no general rule.

Quotations

  • “ There is an old legend in connection with a saint who was to choose one of the seven deadly sins; it chooses that which appeared to him the least serious, drunkenness, and with that one, it made the six other sins. ”

Works

Its most known tales are:

  • The Fir Tree
  • The Elderbush
  • The Bell
  • The Old House
  • The Story off has off Mother
  • The False Collar
  • The Dream Little Tuk
  • The Naughty Boy
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    • the happiness of the day ( the hard Tales of the oubliette) on wikisource

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    External bonds

    The text of the tales is today in the public domain.
    • Hans Christian Andersen Information accessible http://www.hcandersen-homepage.dk
    • complete Text in several formats (English language).
    • Fairy tales (fairy bruise): filed in the Project Gutenberg.
    • reading on line of the tales: English translation of H.P. Paul (1872), with the original illustrations.
    • Tales of Andersen: Tales of Andersen translated into French.
    • Foundation HCA 2005: French official site of the celebrations of the bicentenary of the birth of H.C. Andersen.
    • the Center Hans Christian Andersen The Hans Christian Andersen Center (in English).
    • Hans Christian Andersen Museum the museum Hans Christian Andersen in his native house.
    • Free Expression an illustrated version of the tales of free Andersen in ebook.
    • HCA 2005 Films, interviews and documents (in English and Danish) at the time of the bicentenary of Andersen on site of the Danish national chain Dr.
    • Tales of Hans Christian Andersen a formidable collection of tales of Andersen in several languages.
    • majority of the tales divided into two volumes, accessible in several formats and French, on the free and free Ebooks site.
    • the most important gallery of portraits of H.C. Andersen on line in the world.

    Simple: Hans Christian Andersen Zh-min-nan: Hans Christian Andersen Zh-yue: 安徒生

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