Jens Peter Jacobsen
Jens Peter Jacobsen (born April 7, 1847 in Thisted ; † April 30, 1885 there ) was a Danish writer .
Life
After graduating from high school, JP Jacobsen studied botany , which he completed with an award-winning dissertation on algae . He was an avid supporter of Charles Darwin , whose genesis of the species he translated into Danish and thus promoted the establishment of Darwinian ideas in his home country. Based on the theory of evolution , Jacobsen evolved into a staunch atheist after severe religious doubts and an unhappy love .
In 1873 he traveled to Italy , during which he fell seriously ill in Florence . He returned to Denmark, where he died of tuberculosis in 1885 after a long suffering .
plant
JP Jacobsen's works are characterized by an impressionistic style of the highest precision and deep introspective view of people's emotional lives. He wrote two novels, some short stories and poems. His novels demonstrate the dependence of humans on milieu and disposition through intense mood images, which are developed on the basis of real life.
Most of Jacobsen's works are autobiographical. They represent the situation of modern humans who have to find their way in a world without God. Jacobsen's poetry is equally atmospheric, heavy with thought and melancholy. JP Jacobsen was friends with Edvard Brandes and Georg Brandes , who were related to him in their sentiments.
effect
The Viennese composer Arnold Schönberg set Jacobsen's Gurre songs to music . The English composer Frederick Delius set scenes from Jacobsen's novel Niels Lyhne to music in his last opera, Fennimore and Gerda (1908–1910; first performance in Frankfurt am Main in 1919 ) . Jacobsen's poetry, which reproduces the poet's finest emotions and natural moods very precisely, had a great influence on Rainer Maria Rilke . Also Stefan George , as Rilke the Danish powerful, JP Jacobsen has read with great enthusiasm. Jacobsen, who was misunderstood for a century in Denmark through naturalistic reduction, was an important forerunner of the German symbolists. Thomas Mann's Tonio Kröger , for example, is clearly influenced by Jacobsen's Niels Lyhne . The poet Gottfried Benn also referred to Jacobsen positively in his conversation from 1910.
Works
- Fru Marie Grubbe (Mrs. Marie Grubbe ), 1876
- Mogens , 1872
- Niels Lyhne , 1880
- Pesten i Bergamo (Pest in Bergamo), 1881
- Et Skud i Taagen (A Shot in the Fog), 1875
literature
- Hans Bethge: Jens Peter Jacobsen . Juncker, Berlin 1920.
- Aage Gustafson: Six Scandinavian Novelists. Lie, Jacobsen, Heidenstam, Selma Lagelöf, Hamsun, Sigrid Undset . Biblo & Tanner, New York 1969.
- Aage Knudsen: JP Jacobsen i hans digting . Gyldendal, Copenhagen 1950.
- Horst Nägele : JP Jacobsen . Metzler, Stuttgart 1973, ISBN 3-476-10117-7 .
- Bengt Algot Sørensen: Jens Peter Jacobsen . CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1991 (Beck'sche series 618: Author's books), ISBN 3-406-33165-3 .
- Ina Ritter: The epiphany of the moment. Perception and projection with Rainer Maria Rilke and Jens Peter Jacobsen. Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-58150-6 .
- Brita Tigerschiöld: Jens Peter Jacobsen and Hans Roman Niels Lyhne . Blander, Gothenburg 1945.
- Morten Høi Jensen: A difficult death: the life and work of Jens Peter Jacobsen , Yale University Press, New Haven [2017], ISBN 978-0-300-21893-0 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ In Danish usage only the initials are common, not "Jott-Peh" but "Ih-Peh" spoken here.
- ^ Rainer Maria Rilke: Letters to a young poet . Insel, Leipzig 1950, p. 15 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Jens Peter Jacobsen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Jens Peter Jacobsen in the German Digital Library
- Works by Jens Peter Jacobsen at Zeno.org .
- Works by Jens Peter Jacobsen in the Gutenberg-DE project
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jacobsen, Jens Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 7, 1847 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Thisted |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 30, 1885 |
| Place of death | Thisted |