Valdemar Adolph Thisted

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Valdemar Adolph Thisted

Valdemar Adolph Thisted , known under the pseudonym Emanuel St. Hermidad (born February 28, 1815 in Aarhus , † October 14, 1887 in Frederiksberg ) was a Danish writer and clergyman .

life and work

Valdemar Adolph Thisted was a son of Jorgen Thisted (1795–1855), who worked first as a lieutenant and later as pastor of Gyrstinge and Flinterup, and Maria Elisabeth Elmquist (1790–1829). At the age of twelve he moved to the house of his uncle, the war commissioner AF Elmquist in Aarhus. He had been studying theology in Copenhagen since 1833 , between 1837 and 1839 he worked as a tutor in a manor near Grenaa , but then completed his theology studies in 1840. On October 28, 1840, he married Henriette Hansine Hansen (1815–1904), a sister of the painter Constantin Hansen , but the marriage was later divorced. In Skanderborg he founded a school for boys, which he ran until 1844.

Thisted began his writing career with En Vandring i Syden (Copenhagen 1843), in which novel he provided a description of European regions south of his homeland. But he didn't see the southern countries until 1845/46, when he was able to finance a trip to Germany and Switzerland with the income from his novel. In 1846 he became a teacher at the secondary school in Aarhus. With royal support he visited Italy on his second trip abroad from 1849-50. He processed the impressions of this trip in Episoder fra et Reiseliv (Copenhagen 1850) and Romerske Mosaiker (Copenhagen 1851). He also edited a number of fairy tales from the Arabian Nights ( Eventyr og Fortællinger af 1001 Nat , 6 volumes, 1852–54).

Of Thisted's other works, mostly also translated into German, which are distinguished by their brilliant presentation and rich imagination, but suffer from great lengthiness, are to be emphasized:

  • Havfruen , Roman, Copenhagen 1846
  • Danmark bestaaer! , 1849
  • Tabt og vunden , novel, 2 volumes, Copenhagen 1849
  • Örkenens Hjerte , Seal, 1849
  • Eventyr, Sketcher og Sagn , Copenhagen 1849
  • Bruden , Seal, Copenhagen 1851
  • Sirenernes Ø , novel, 2 volumes, Copenhagen 1853
  • Neapolitaniske Aquareller , Travel Studies, 2 volumes, Copenhagen 1853
  • Hittebarnet , romantic drama, 1854
  • Hjemme og paa Vandring , Novellistic Travel Studies , 1854
  • Familieskatten , Roman, 1856

Meanwhile, on July 23, 1853, Thisted married Elisa Otilia Rasmussen (1830-1901) for the second time. The school he was employed by had died. He turned back to theology and was pastor in Højrup in North Schleswig in 1855 and in Tømmerup in Zealand in 1862 . He continued his literary career in a religious direction and published Præstekald and, as an appendix, Til Christi Menighed fra Præsten i Hvilsted (Copenhagen 1859), but then Søndagsprædikener (1860). His Breve fra Helvede (Copenhagen 1866; 4th edition 1871; German letters from hell ) , written under the pseudonym M. Rowel , caused a sensation in Germany in particular ; they show a religiously inquiring, imaginative spirit. The story Høgholt followed in 1868 as the last literary work . In 1870 Thisted had to retire due to a nervous condition and moved to Frederiksborg. He died there on October 14, 1887 at the age of 72.

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b c Daniel Preisz: Thisted, Valdemar Adolph , in: Dansk biografisk leksikon , 3rd edition, 1979-84 (Danish)
  2. ↑ a b Thisted (Waldemar Adolf) , in: Brockhaus' Conversations-Lexikon , 13th edition, 1882-87, 15th volume, p. 641.
  3. ^ Valdemar Adolph Thisted . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 15, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 655.
personal data
SURNAME Thisted, Valdemar Adolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish writer and clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Aarhus
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1887
Place of death Frederiksberg