Jens Peter Jacobsen
Jens Peter Jacobsen ( born April 7, 1847 in Thisted, † April 30, 1885 ) was a Danish writer.
Life
Jacobsen completed after high school to study botany, which he completed with a winning thesis on algae. He was an avid supporter of Charles Darwin, whose Origin of Species, he translated into Danish and drove forward as the establishment of Darwin's ideas in his home country. Based on the theory of evolution Jacobsen developed after serious religious doubts and an unhappy love for a determined atheist.
1873 led him to travel to Italy, during which he fell seriously ill in Florence. He returned to Denmark, where he died after a long illness in 1885 of tuberculosis.
Work
Characteristic of Jacobsen's works are an Impressionist style of the highest accuracy and deeper introspection into the mind of people's lives. He has written two novels, some short stories and poems. His novels demonstrate the dependence of man on environment and investment by intense mood images, which are developed on the basis of the reality of life.
Most of the works Jacobsen wear autobiographical. They represent the situation of modern man who must find his way in a world without God. Jacobsen's poetry is equally atmospheric, thoughtfully and melancholic. Jacobsen was friends with Edvard Brandes and Georg Brandes, who were related to him in her mind.
Effect
The Viennese composer Arnold Schoenberg set to music Jacobsen Gurrelieder. The lyric Jacobsen, representing the finest mental impulses and moods of nature the poet's very accurate, had great influence on Rainer Maria Rilke. Also, Stefan George, Rilke, as well as the Danish powerful, Jacobsen has read with great enthusiasm. Jacobsen, which you mistook for a century in Denmark by naturalistic reduction, was an important precursor of the German Symbolists. For example, Thomas Mann's Tonio Kröger clearly influenced by Niels Jacobsen Lyhne. Another positive factor was the poet Gottfried Benn refers in his interview of 1910 Jacobsen.
Works
- Fru Marie Grubbe ( Frau Marie Grubbe ), 1876
- Mogens, 1872
- Niels Lyhne, 1880
- Pesten i Bergamo ( Plague in Bergamo), 1881
- Et Skud i Taagen, 1875