Ingeborg Buhl

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Ingeborg Buhl (born April 17, 1890 in Copenhagen ; died April 22, 1982 in Himmelev ) was a Danish writer, translator and art historian .

Live and act

Ingeborg Buhl was the daughter of the Danish professor Frants Peder William Buhl (1850-1932) and his German wife Frieda Wilhelmine (née Görnemann, 1855-1934). Shortly after their birth, the family moved to Leipzig, where the father was appointed to a professorship as a theologian and orientalist. She had three older siblings. In 1898 the family moved back to Copenhagen. Buhl was a good student with a talent for languages, art and culture. She completed a degree in German and history that she graduated successfully in 1912. She then worked for two years as a teacher at a boarding school in Hesselager on Fyn. She traveled to Europe and the Middle East for a while before she accepted a position as a museum assistant at the Frederiksborg Museum from 1921 to 1935 and, among other things, made biographical contributions to the General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present (1925-1932) or the Encyclopedia Italiana authored.

Buhl lived from 1935 to 1977 in the women's monastery in Danish Roskilde Adelige Jomfrukloster '(Monastery for noble virgins Roskilde)' in Roskilde . Here she wrote publications on the history of the monastery and became its historian. Before that time she had looked after her frail parents, so she looked forward to the peace and quiet in the monastery and took the opportunity to devote herself to her own interests. In 1929 she had published her first own work on the court actor Jeremias Lund in the magazine Tilskueren . In 1938 a collection of short stories with the title Mellem Himmel og Jord (Between Heaven and Earth) and a short story about Sidsel Orne appeared. When the "Steen Hasselbalch Forlag" wanted to set up a cultural library, Buhl worked there as an editor from 1951 to 1969 and translated around 25 volumes, using her cultural knowledge and language skills. In addition to Danish and German, she spoke more than a dozen foreign languages. At the same time she wrote more extensive writings or short stories, which mainly dealt with psychological problems of people in difficult life situations. She has published poems, children's books, novels and essays. Her last poetic and critical novella about life in a retirement home “Skyggeliv” appeared in 1977. In the same year she was sent to a nursing home in Himmelev, where she died in 1982.

Buhl was a member of the PEN Club and received several awards, including:

  • 1964 the "Herman Bangs Mindelegat" (scholarship) from the Danish Writers' Union
  • 1970 the Danish "Oversætterpris" (translator award)
  • 1976 the "Kgl. Reward Medal “in gold
  • 1977 the "Adam-Oehlenschlæger Legatet" (scholarship)

Fonts (selection)

  • Mellem Himmel and Jordan: noveller . Schønberg, Copenhagen 1938 ( books.google.de - reading sample, contains an essay on Jeremias Lund).
  • Who he saa mange stemmer: diges . Schoonberg, Copenhagen 1940.
  • Roskilde noble Jomfrukloster 1699–1949 . Flensborgs Boghandel, Roskilde 1949 (with Arthur Fang).
  • Portrætsamlingen i Roskilde aristocratic Jomfrukloster: including a description of the monastery and other painters and inventories . National History Museum, Frederiksborg 1961.
  • Skyggeliv? Maskebal på hjemmet . Poul Kristensen, Herning 1977, ISBN 87-7468-056-0 .

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SURNAME Buhl, Ingeborg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish writer, translator and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1982
Place of death Himmelev Sogn