This enabled him to set out on the first of many journeys throughout Europe. He made little progress in writing and publishing immediately following the issue of these poems but he did receive a small travel grant from the king in 1833.
Nicholas Church Tower, and a short volume of poems. Andersen followed this success with a theatrical piece, Love on St. In 1829, Andersen enjoyed considerable success with the short story "A Journey on Foot from Holmen's Canal to the East Point of Amager." Its protagonist meets characters ranging from Saint Peter to a talking cat. The story remained in that family's possession until it turned up among other family papers in a local archive. It was written while Andersen was still in school and dedicated to one of his benefactors. The story, written in the 1820s, is about a candle that did not feel appreciated.
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Paper chimney sweep cut by Andersen Early work Ī very early fairy tale by Andersen, " The Tallow Candle" ( Danish: Tællelyset), was discovered in a Danish archive in October 2012. He later said that the dogs had discouraged him from writing, which then resulted in a depression. There he was abused and was told that it was done in order "to improve his character". At one particular school, he lived at his schoolmaster's home. He later said that his years at this school were the darkest and most bitter years of his life. Though not a stellar pupil, he also attended school at Elsinore until 1827. Andersen had by then published his first story, "The Ghost at Palnatoke's Grave" (1822). Jonas Collin, director of the Royal Danish Theatre, held great affection for Andersen and sent him to a grammar school in Slagelse, persuading King Frederick VI to pay part of the youth's education. Taking the suggestion seriously, Andersen began to focus on writing. A colleague at the theatre told him that he considered Andersen a poet. Having an excellent soprano voice, he was accepted into the Royal Danish Theatre, but his voice soon changed. At fourteen, he moved to Copenhagen to seek employment as an actor. Andersen was sent to a local school for poor children where he received a basic education and had to support himself, working as an apprentice to a weaver and, later, to a tailor. Following her husband's death in 1816, she remarried in 1818. Andersen's mother, Anne Marie Andersdatter, was an illiterate washerwoman. His certificate of birth was not drafted until November 1823, according to which six Godparents were present at the baptising ceremony: Madam Sille Marie Breineberg, Maiden Friederiche Pommer, shoemaker Peder Waltersdorff, journeyman carpenter Anders Jørgensen, hospital porter Nicolas Gomard, and royal hatter Jens Henrichsen Dorch.Īndersen's father, who had received an elementary school education, introduced his son to literature, reading to him the Arabian Nights. Hans Christian Andersen was baptised on 15 April 1805 in Saint Hans Church (St John's Church) in Odense, Denmark. Danish historian Jens Jørgensen supported this idea in his book H.C. Although it has been challenged, a persistent speculation suggests that Andersen was an illegitimate son of King Christian VIII. His father, also named Hans, considered himself related to nobility (his paternal grandmother had told his father that their family had belonged to a higher social class, but investigations have disproved these stories). Hans Christian Andersen was born in Odense, Denmark on 2 April 1805. One of Copenhagen's widest and busiest boulevards, skirting Copenhagen City Hall Square at the corner of which Andersen's larger-than-life bronze statue sits, is named " H. His stories have inspired ballets, plays, and animated and live-action films. His most famous fairy tales include " The Emperor's New Clothes", " The Little Mermaid", " The Nightingale", " The Steadfast Tin Soldier", " The Red Shoes", " The Princess and the Pea", " The Snow Queen", " The Ugly Duckling", " The Little Match Girl", and " Thumbelina". Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales.Īndersen's fairy tales, consisting of 156 stories across nine volumes and translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to children, but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well. Hans Christian Andersen ( / ˈ æ n d ər s ən/, Danish: ( listen) 2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author. Østerbro, Copenhagen (København), DenmarkĪssistens Cemetery, Copenhagen (København)
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