Danish novelist, born at Vordingborg, Zealand, on the 26th of October 1819; studied at the University of Copenhagen; in 1840, started The Corsair, a weekly journal, which was brilliantly edited; and in 1848 founded The North and South, a critical journal. He became more appreciated for his novels, in which he blended a sparkling wit with a sympathetic pathos, the delicacy of his style being equaled only by the sensitive idealism of his nature. Among the best known of his works are A Jew (1852); The Homeless Man (1853); The Heir (1865); and The Raven (1867). He died on the 16th of August 1887. See also Assar and Mirjam.
