Bernhard Severin Ingemann
Bernhard Severin Ingemann | |
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Born | Falster, Denmark | 28 May 1789
Died | 24 February 1862 Sorø, Denmark | (aged 72)
Occupation | Poet |
Nationality | Danish |
Literary movement | Romanticism |
Spouse | Lucie Ingemann |
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Bernhard Severin Ingemann (28 May 1789 – 24 February 1862) was a Danish novelist and poet.
Biography
Ingemann was born in Torkilstrup, on the island of Falster, Denmark. The son of a vicar, he was left fatherless in his youth. While a student at the University of Copenhagen he published his first collection of poems (1811; vol. ii., 1812), which show great influence of German romanticism. Critics describe their sickly sentimentality as reflecting the unhealthy condition of the poet's body and mind at this time. These works were followed by a long allegorical poem, De sorte Riddere (The Black Knights, 1814), which closed his first period.
Then followed six plays, of which the best is considered to be Reinald Underbarnet (The Miraculous Child Reinald, 1816), and the most popular, Blanca, (1815). In 1817 he published his first prose work, De Underjordiske, et bornholmsk Eventyr (The Subterranean Ones, a Story of Bornholm), which was followed in 1820 by Eventyr og Fortællinger (Narratives and Miraculous Tales), many of them imitations of Hoffmann. During 1818–19 he traveled on the Continent.
In 1822 was appointed instructor of the Danish Language and Literature at the Academy of Sorø. During his next period, inspired by
While his historical romances show a lack of accuracy, their strong nationality gives them a special interest to the student of Danish culture. In reality they mean the introduction of the
Known as the fourth great Danish hymn writer (after
He was a personal friend of Grundtvig who was in some degrees his mentor and with whom he shared a deep interest of Danish medieval history. Often they have been regarded almost mental twins in spite of clear differences. Also Blicher and H. C. Andersen must be mentioned among his friends.
Ingemann was in his elder years much respected and after the death of
Ingemann was married to Lucie Marie Mandix (1792–1868), a painter, whose works still hang in Danish churches.[1][2]
Written works
Songs
- I sne står urt og busk i skjul (1831)
- I alle de riger og lande (1837)
- I østen stiger solen op (1837)
- Lysets engel går med glans (1837)
- Nu titte til hinanden (1837)
- Dagen går med raske fjed (1838)
- Julen har bragt velsignet bud (1839)
- Den store mester kommer (1841)
- Stork! stork! Langeben! (1842)
- Dejlig er jorden (1850)
- Glade jul, dejlige jul (1850)
- Julen har englelyd (1569)
- Nu vågne alle Guds fugle små (1837)
Short stories
- Eventyr og Fortællinger (1820)
- Glasskabet (1847)
Epic poems
- Valdemar den Store og hans Mænd (1824)
- Dronning Margrete (1836)
- Holger Danske (1837)
Novels
- Valdemar Seier (1826)
- Erik Menveds Barndom (1828)
- Kong Erik og de Fredløse (1833)
- Prinds Otto af Danmark (1834)
References
- ^ Fabritius, Elisabeth. "Lucie Ingemann (1792 - 1868)" (in Danish). Kvinfo. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
- ^ "Lucie Ingemann". Den Store Danske (in Danish). Retrieved 7 March 2017.
- Universal Cyclopædia & Atlas, 1902, New York, D. Appleton & Co.
- Samlede Skrifter (Collected Works, xli. vols., Copenhagen, 1843–65.
- Nils Holger Petersen, "B.S. Ingemann: Danish Medievalism in the Nineteenth Century," in: Cahier Calin: Makers of the Middle Ages. Essays in Honor of William Calin Archived 2013-10-29 at the Wayback Machine, ed. Richard Utz and Elizabeth Emery (Kalamazoo, MI: Studies in Medievalism, 2011), pp. 33–35.
External links
- B. S. Ingemann at Kalliope.
- B. S. Ingemann at the Cyber Hymnal.
- B. S. Ingemann at Danish Wikisource.
- B. S. Ingemann in the Encyclopædia Britannica.
- B. S. Ingemann's texts set to music at the LiederNet Archive
- B. S. Ingemann at the Archive for Danish Literature.
- Works by Bernhard Severin Ingemann at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Bernhard Severin Ingemann at Internet Archive
- Works by Bernhard Severin Ingemann at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
Short story
Christmas hymn
- Dejlig er jorden: Danish lyrics
- Dejlig er jorden: English lyrics
- Dejlig er jorden: sung in Norwegian by Carsten Woll.
Translations of Ingemann
- Through the Night of Doubt and Sorrow (Igjennem Nat og Trængsel)
- Often I am happy (Tit er jeg glad)
- The sun that in the east does rise (I østen stiger solen op)
- Peace rests o’er town and countryside (Fred hviler over land og by)
- The beauteous earth’s late sun is furled (Den skjønne jordens sol gik ned)