Tryggve Andersen

Tryggve Andersen ( born September 27, 1866 in Ringsaker, † April 10, 1920 in Gran ) was a Norwegian writer of the New Romanticism.

Life

Andersen was the son of the official Christian Andersen. This has been repeatedly displaced within Norway. The family moved when Tryggve Andersen was ten years old, in the near mountains. In his Bergen he discovered the works of ETA Hoffmann, who influenced him greatly. Later, Andersen had a cat, which he gave the name Kater Murr.

1883 Andersen family moved to Hamar, where he met Nils Collett Vogt, with the developed a close friendship. After high school he studied in Christiania, but was soon expelled from the university. After that, he lived for some time with his brother in Mandal, before he returned in 1893 to Hamar. In 1898 he married Margrethe Schønberg, but his wife and the older of the two common sons died of tuberculosis. In 1906 he married his second wife, the writer Regine Normann. 1913, the marriage ended in divorce. At this time, Grete Tychy was already pregnant. Andersen and Tychy were married in 1914. They had two children.

Andersen's most famous work is the novel I cancelliraadens other hand, which appeared in 1897, when his first book. In the novel, it's about a councilor in rural Norway. Setting for the novel is Andersen's birthplace Ringsaker.

In 1900 he published another novel, Mot Kvæld. However, this had little success. However, meaning he gained through the descriptions of epilepsy, suffered from the Andersen himself. In addition, Andersen wrote poems and short stories.

Works

  • I cancelliraadens other hand (1887 )
  • Digte (1888 )
  • Mot Kvæld (1900)
  • Gamle folk (1904 )
  • Bispesønnen og andre fortællinger (1907 )
  • Hjemfærd (1913 )
  • Fabler above starting elser (1915 )
  • Samlede fortællinger (1916 )
  • Dagbog fra en sjøreise (1923 )

Swell

  • Dietrich von Engelhardt uA: This is an old disease: epilepsy in the literature. Stuttgart 2000.
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