Enevold De Falsen

Envold De Falsen also " Enevold De Falsen " ( born October 17, 1755 in Copenhagen, † November 16, 1808 in Christiania ) was a Norwegian lawyer, civil servant and author.

His parents were the log secretary and later the King's Bench Counsel Christian Magnus de Falsen ( 1719-99 ) and his wife Else Thestrup ( 1729-99 ). On November 22, 1781 he married Anna Henrike Petronelle Mathiesen ( 16 November 1762-18. March 1825 ), daughter of Lagmanns and firm Council Jørgen Mathiesen ( 1725-1764 ) and Karen Haagensdatter Nielsen ( 1735-1766 ).

Among his contemporaries he was known as a great director, poet and actor. For posterity, but he was a patriot and statesman, one of the pioneers of the freedom movement 1814.

Youth

Already with 10 years, he passed the entrance examination to the university. He studied law and was in Copenhagen with 16 years of the state exam. In 1772, he was a copyist in the Danish State Chancellery. During this time his interest in theater developed. His first play Salvini Adelson above, however, was not accepted by the Royal Theatre. He also became a Freemason.

Career

The judge

One has become known love affair with a young widow meant that his father, President of the Court Oberhof, brought him to Christiania in 1777 and brought him to his court a position as assessor.

In Christiania De Falsen came into the theater life. Together with others he built up a solid Dramatic Society there. For the opening performance, he wrote the prologue and participated as an actor. In 1781 he married one of the participating women and so came in conjunction with Christiania's citizens layer. For the theater company he wrote a series of translations and also wrote its own farce De snorrige Fættere that was listed there.

Even in his judgeship he was successful, and in 1876 he became a member of the commission to investigate the Lofthuus uprising. The complaints of the farmers about the arbitrariness of the authorities and the trade privileges of the citizens met with him on understanding. He himself was a supporter of free trade. He soon realized that the complaints about the authorities were justified. With its commitment and skill in written expression, he quickly took a decisive influence on the Commission's report, which led to the dismissal of some officials. In the longer term, there was a new charging scheme and to release the grain trade in Norway.

The scandal

When his father took his departure in 1788, he became his successor at the King's Bench with 33 years. But again, there was a love affair, this time with the wife of General advokāts and step- daughter of a fellow judges. This scandal forced De Falsen to himself transferred as a simple judge of Nordland and Finnmark after stone. The social isolation produced in him a severe depression which his life he could not overcome.

The move to Copenhagen

Due to his depression, he moved to Copenhagen in 1791, where he was assessor in the Supreme Court. Here he found great recognition, and he went back to the theater. Many of his translations and own plays were performed, with the Singspiel Dragedukken was his greatest success. During this time also changed his view of life. He wrote the script Om urbanitet ( About the urbanity ), in which he introduced the duty over passion. He came back with the theater life in conjunction and became acquainted with Peter Andreas Heiberg. The terror of the French Revolution caused him civil liberty higher estimate than the political freedom. He supported the Danish-Norwegian union. Against the charge of betraying the cause of freedom, the later his son rose, he defended himself in his work Hvad he Soge Frihed og hvor skulle the vi, ( What is freedom and how should we seek them? )

But he still stayed Norwegian patriot and sat down in 1793 with the publication " Et Par Ord om det norske Akademi " emphatically for the establishment of its own, a Norwegian university.

Return to Norway

On November 12, 1802, he became president of the pin - Supreme Court in Akershus. Here he found great recognition, and he went back to the theater. Many of his translations and own plays were performed, with the Singspiel Dragedukken was his greatest success. ( Stiftsoverret ) in Akershus. A year later he received the title of " Privy Councillor ". Again he dived into the theater life of Christiania, and the resulting in Nordland depression gave way for a while. 1799 in Christiania a new Theatergeselschaft was founded, which had its own theater.

The Danish- British war led by the British blockade to communication difficulties between Norway and Copenhagen, so that in Christiania own administration had to be rebuilt in 1807. De Falsen was born on August 24, 1807 Member of the Government Commission and soon became a leading member. He wrote all the reports to the Danish Government. 1808 came the war with Sweden to do so. To prevent rumors, the Commission issued a separate handout out Budstikken ( herald's staff ) with De Falsen as editor. In it official reports on the progress of the war with his comments about the bravery of the soldiers and Norwegian Norwegian future were published.

The end

But behind this mask of enthusiasm for the cause of Norway De Falsen became increasingly frustrated by the refusal of the Commission proposals by the king, by the desperate supply situation in the country and the empty state coffers. The feeling of danger and insurmountable difficulties at all corners and ends together with the overwhelming workload became too much to him. In a rainy night in November 1808, he disappeared after a visit to the theater, and his body was found the next morning on the beach of Bjørvika.

He was buried kirkegård with great sympathy of the population on the Gamle Aker.

Works

  • " Salvini above Adelson, " in: Nye og original Skuespil. Volume 1 Copenhagen 1776
  • " De snorrige Fættere ". 1778th In: Nye og original Skuespil. Band. 3 Copenhagen 1781
  • Et Par Ord om det Norske Academy. Copenhagen 1793
  • Festivals i Valhal. En prologue til Kongens Fødselsdag the January 29, 1796 ( The Feast in Valhalla. A Prologue to the King's birthday on January 29, 1796), reprint in Minerva 1796
  • Dragedukken. Et Syngespil i fire Akter ( The Koboldin. A musical comedy in four acts ), Copenhagen 1797
  • "Om Urbanitet " ( About the urbanity ), Copenhagen 1801, first printed in: Skandinavisk Museum 1 Issue 2, 1800, pp. 94-151
  • " Hvad he Frihed og hvor skulle vi Soge the ". In: Skandinavisk Museum 2, Issue 2, 1802, pp. 1-48
  • Editors of Budstikken No.1- 55, 1808
  • Envold Falsen: Skrifter (fonts ), collected and edited by LS Platou, 2 volumes, 1821 ( supplement of OA Øverland in Bogvennen 4, 1896, p 1-29)

Comments

The article is based on the Norsk biografisk leksikon. Any other information will be shown separately. The notes are taken from the Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon.

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