Poul Martin Møller

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Poul Martin Møller on his death bed

Poul Martin Møller (born March 21, 1794 in Uldum , † March 13, 1838 in Copenhagen ) was a Danish philosopher , theologian , writer and translator . He was professor of philosophy in Kristiania and Copenhagen and exerted a great influence on his student Søren Kierkegaard .

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Møller was the son of Rasmus Møller, who was a pastor in Uldum near Vejle . The mother died in 1810, and the following year Rasmus Møller married Johanne Dorothea Winther, whose son Christian later also became a writer. Møller studied theology at the University of Copenhagen from 1812 , and graduated in 1816. During his studies he also wrote his first poems, which he published in magazines from 1815. However, his main works were only published posthumously in book form . His most famous work is the unfinished novel En dansk Students Eventyr .

In 1817 he became tutor to Count Moltke on Espegård near Skælskør . In 1818 he returned to Copenhagen, where he took part in the literary feud between Jens Immanuel Baggesen and Adam Oehlenschläger . After the feud subsided, he undertook a trip to China from 1819 to 1821 as a ship preacher on a ship of the Asiatisk Kompagni . After his return he worked as a teacher in Copenhagen. In 1826 he became a lecturer and in 1828 professor at the Royal Friedrichs University in Kristiania . In 1830 Møller returned to Copenhagen and became an associate professor at the University of Copenhagen.

Møller was married to Betty Berg (1804–1834) from 1827 until her death in 1834 and from 1836 to Eline von Bülow (1804–1876).

Works

  • Statistisk Skildring af Lægdsgaarden i Ølseby-Magle (1819)
  • Scener i Rosenborg Have (1821)
  • En dansk Students Eventyr (1843)

literature

personal data
SURNAME Møller, Poul Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish philosopher and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH Uldum
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1838
Place of death Copenhagen