Tryggve Andersen

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Tryggve Andersen. Etching by Henrik Lund

Tryggve Andersen (born September 27, 1866 in Ringsaker , † April 10, 1920 in Gran ) was a Norwegian writer of neo-romanticism .

Life

Andersen was the son of the civil servant Christian Andersen . This was moved several times within Norway. The family moved to the vicinity of Bergen when Tryggve Andersen was ten years old . During his time in Bergen he discovered the works of ETA Hoffmann , which influenced him a lot. Andersen later had a cat, which he named Kater Murr .

In 1883 Andersen's family moved to Hamar , where he met Nils Collett Vogt , with whom he developed a close friendship. After graduating from high school, he studied in Kristiania , but was soon expelled from the university. He then lived with his brother in Mandal for some time before returning to Hamar in 1893. In 1898 he married Margrethe Schønberg , but his wife and the older of their two sons died of tuberculosis . In 1906 he married his second wife, the writer Regine Normann . The marriage ended in divorce in 1913. At this point Grete Tichauer was already pregnant. Andersen and Tichauer married in 1914. They had two children.

Andersen's best-known work is the novel I cancelliraadens dage , which was published in 1897 as his first book. The novel is about a law firm in rural Norway. The setting of the novel is Andersen's birthplace Ringsaker.

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

Works

  • I cancelliraadens dage (1887)
  • Digte (1888)
  • Mot Kvæld (1900)
  • Gamle folk (1904)
  • Bispesønnen and other fortællinger (1907)
  • Hjemfærd (1913)
  • Fabler and Hendelser (1915)
  • Samlede fortællinger (1916)
  • Dagbog fra en sjøreise (1923)

swell

  • Dietrich von Engelhardt and others: It's an old disease: epilepsy in literature. Stuttgart 2000.

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