Marie Colban
Adolphine Marie Colban (born December 18, 1814 in Christiania , † March 27, 1884 in Rome ) was a Norwegian novelist and translator.
life and work
Marie Colban was a daughter of the lawyer Peter Nicolai Schmidt (1776-1846) and Petronelle Sandberg (1787-1846). She married in 1836 with the teacher Nathanael Angell Colban (1793-1850). 1844 she translated the novel Mathilde of Eugène Sue into Norwegian. She became a widow at the age of 35. Pressed by circumstances to write, she translated learned works into French. In 1856 she came to Paris , where a distinguished lady had the letters that Colban wrote her in the bathroom printed without her knowledge as Lettres d'une barbare , which caused such a stir that the author from then on wrote for French journals and admitted them got into the best of company. So spending most of the winter in Paris and the summer in Norway, she soon appeared with independent works in the language of her home country.
The following novellas were published by Colban:
- Lærerinden , 1869
- Tre Noveller, tilegnet norske Kvinder , Christiania 1873
- Tre nye Noveller , Copenhagen 1875
- Jeg lever , Copenhagen 1877, probably her most important work; German Leipzig 1878
- En gammel Jomfru , Copenhagen 1879; German: An old maid , Stuttgart 1880
- Cleopatra , 1880
- Thyra , 1882
Colban combines the warmth and sophistication of the south with the finely spiritual, keenly probing nature of the north: Norway and France in a harmonious fusion. Almost all of her work has been translated into German. She spent her final years in Rome, died there on March 27, 1884 at the age of 69 and was buried in the Protestant cemetery .
literature
- Marie Colban . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 4, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 200.
- Elisabeth Aasen: Colban, Marie , in: Norsk biografisk leksikon
Web links
- Adolphine Marie Colban , in: The history of nordic women's literature
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Colban, Marie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Colban, Adolphine Marie (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian novelist and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 18, 1814 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Christiania |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 27, 1884 |
| Place of death | Rome |