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 1828 - 1906 (78 years)
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Henrik Johan Ibsen |
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20 Mar 1828 |
Skien, Telemark, Norway  |
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Male |
| Death |
23 May 1906 |
Oslo, Norway |
| Person ID |
I75606 |
Cecilie Family |
| Last Modified |
10 Dec 2010 |
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- Henrik Ibsen
Ibsen, Henrik Johan (1828 - 1906) born in Skien, Norway. He was briefly apprenticed to an apothecary and began medical studies. At twenty-one Ibsen moved to Christiania (now Oslo). While in Christinia he wrote his first play, Cataline.
In 1851 Ibsen began managing and playwriting for the National Theater in Bergen (1851 - 1857). There his writings were largely based on folk tales and history. He moved back to Christiania in 1857 to become the creative director of the city's Norwegian Theater (1857 - 1862).
He married Suzannah Thoresen in 1858.
In 1863 he and his wife went abroad. He spent the next twenty seven years in Italy and Germany (1863 - 1891). During this time abroad, he authored a number of works, including Brand (1866) and Peer Gynt (1867). While in Munich Ibsen wrote his groundbreaking realistic drama, A Doll's House (1879). Ibsen eventually abandoned the realistic style of A Doll's House and turned to so-called symbolic dramas. He completed Hedda Gabbler in 1890.
Ibsen and Suzannah returned to Norway in 1891. There he finished writing The Master Builder (1891).
Ibsen died in 1906 at the age of seventy-eight.
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