Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847–1885)
Author of Niels Lyhne
About the Author
Jens Peter Jacobsen, Denmark's foremost novelist of naturalism, expressed in his small body of work his rejection of religion and his enthusiasm for the new doctrine of evolution. In his autobiographical novel Niels Lyhne (1880), sometimes called by contemporaries "the bible of atheism," he wrote show more that "there is no God and man is his prophet." During his troubled life, cut short by tuberculosis, he translated into Danish nearly all the writings of Charles Darwin. His own work---two novels, a book of short stories, and a few poems---strove to "bring into the realm of literature the eternal laws of nature" and to free the concept of nature from the distorted concept of romanticism. The novella Mogens (1972) was Jacobsen's first publication; it became famous as an example of the new naturalistic current in literature. In it, life is seen as perceptions of the instant, and people are motivated by natural laws and drives. In Marie Grubbe (1876), externally a seventeenth-century historical romance, the life of Marie is determined by her erotic needs; although born into nobility, she finally finds happiness in life as the wife of a coarse stableman. Jacobsen's concern with anxiety and inner torment brings to mind the great nineteenth-century Russian novelists, while his naturalism and interest in psychology are reminiscent of Gustave Flaubert. Jacobsen's influence on major European writers who followed him, such as Rainer Maria Rilke, is well documented. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Jens Peter Jacobsen
Samlede Skrifter 16 copies
Samlede værker (Bind 2j 11 copies
Breve fra J.P. Jacobsen 4 copies
Novellen und Gedichte 3 copies
Aksel Larsen 2 copies
Udvalgte noveller 2 copies
Livets dilemmaer 2 copies
Jens-Peter Jacobsen: Das erzählerische Werk - Verlag: Hinstorff [Auflage: 2. Auflage] (1977) 2 copies
Samlede noveller og udvalgte digte 2 copies
Un disparo en la niebla 2001 2 copies
Skrivnost z barja 1 copy
Kormak und Stengerde 1 copy
MARIE GRUBBE 1 1 copy
MARIE GRUBBE 2 1 copy
MARIE GRUBBE 3 1 copy
Pesten i Bergamo 1 copy
Erzählungen 1 copy
Mogens Eine Novelle 1 copy
Siren voices 1 copy
La signora Fn̲ss 1 copy
Drie verhalen 1 copy
Store Nordiske 1 copy
Dva světy 1 copy
Poems 1 copy
Historisk Billedatlas 1 copy
Las mejores novelas de la literatura universal. Vol. 20, La novela escandinava en el siglo XIX 1 copy
The Seagull Library 1 copy
Digte af J.P. Jacobsen 1 copy
Gedichte II 1 copy
Menneskets psykiske sygdomme 1 copy
Gudenå 1 copy
Trofæ 1 copy
Når de døde vågner 1 copy
Et ¤bjerg af løgne 1 copy
Associated Works
Oogst der tijden : keur uit de werken van schrijvers en dichters aller volken en eeuwen (1940) — Contributor — 10 copies
Dansk litterær kritik fra Anders Sørensen Vedel til Sophus Claussen — Author, some editions — 3 copies
Gyldendals bibliotek, bind 50: Dansk Lyrik, anden del — Author, some editions — 2 copies
Danske Fortællinger, første del — Author, some editions — 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Jacobsen, J. P.
- Legal name
- Jacobsen, Jens Peter
- Birthdate
- 1847-04-07
- Date of death
- 1885-04-30
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Denmark
- Birthplace
- Thisted, Denmark
- Place of death
- Thisted, Denmark
- Places of residence
- Thisted, Denmark
Copenhagen, Denmark - Education
- University of Copenhagen
- Occupations
- poet
novelist
botanist
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