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Stockmanngården
Stockmanngården (Stockmann House) was a large building in central Skien, known as the birthplace of the playwright Henrik Ibsen. It burned down during the great fire of 1886. It was located at the corner of ''Telemarksgaden'' and ''Prindsens Gade'' (now known as Henrik Ibsens gate). It was the city's most central townhouse, and had ten full rooms as well as loft, stables, barn and other outbuildings. It was named for the merchant Christian Stockmann. In 1825 Knud Ibsen, aged 28, established himself as an independent timber and luxury goods merchant in Skien with his younger half-brother Christopher Blom Paus, aged 15, as his apprentice. In the 1825 census the two brothers lived in Stockmanngården with a maid named Marthe Isachsdatter, aged 30. The building's owner, the merchant's widow Rachel Stockmann, also lived in the building with her two daughters. In December 1825 Knud Ibsen married his stepfather's niece (his brother's first cousin) Marichen Altenburg, who then moved in w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stockmanngården
Stockmanngården (Stockmann House) was a large building in central Skien, known as the birthplace of the playwright Henrik Ibsen. It burned down during the great fire of 1886. It was located at the corner of ''Telemarksgaden'' and ''Prindsens Gade'' (now known as Henrik Ibsens gate). It was the city's most central townhouse, and had ten full rooms as well as loft, stables, barn and other outbuildings. It was named for the merchant Christian Stockmann. In 1825 Knud Ibsen, aged 28, established himself as an independent timber and luxury goods merchant in Skien with his younger half-brother Christopher Blom Paus, aged 15, as his apprentice. In the 1825 census the two brothers lived in Stockmanngården with a maid named Marthe Isachsdatter, aged 30. The building's owner, the merchant's widow Rachel Stockmann, also lived in the building with her two daughters. In December 1825 Knud Ibsen married his stepfather's niece (his brother's first cousin) Marichen Altenburg, who then moved in w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knud Ibsen
Knud Plesner Ibsen (3 October 1797, in Skien – 24 October 1877, in Skien) was a Norwegian merchant from the city of Skien and the father of the playwright Henrik Ibsen. He is widely considered the model for many central characters in his son's plays, including Jon Gynt in ''Peer Gynt'' and Old Ekdahl in ''The Wild Duck''. Early life Knud Ibsen was the son of ship's captain Henrich Johan Ibsen and Johanne Plesner; his paternal great-grandfather had immigrated from Denmark to Norway in 1726. His father died at sea outside Hesnesøya near Grimstad in November 1797, and the following year, Johanne married ship's captain Ole Paus; in 1799 Ole Paus bought the estate Rising near Skien after selling the Ibsen house in downtown Skien, and the family moved to Rising in 1800. Knud Ibsen grew up at Rising with most of his half-siblings, among them the later lawyer and member of parliament Christian Cornelius Paus and shipowner and banker Christopher Blom Paus. One of his half-broth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Johan Ibsen (; ; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of realism" and one of the most influential playwrights of his time. His major works include ''Brand'', '' Peer Gynt'', '' An Enemy of the People'', ''Emperor and Galilean'', ''A Doll's House'', ''Hedda Gabler'', '' Ghosts'', ''The Wild Duck'', ''When We Dead Awaken'', ''Rosmersholm'', and ''The Master Builder''. Ibsen is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare, and ''A Doll's House'' was the world's most performed play in 2006. Ibsen's early poetic and cinematic play ''Peer Gynt'' has strong surreal elements. After ''Peer Gynt'' Ibsen abandoned verse and wrote in realistic prose. Several of his later dramas were considered scandalous to many of his era, when European theatre was expected to model strict morals of family life and propriety. Ibsen's later wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skien
Skien () is a city and municipality in Vestfold og Telemark county in Norway. In modern times it is regarded as part of the traditional region of Grenland, although historically it belonged to Grenmar/Skiensfjorden, while Grenland referred the Norsjø area and Bø. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Skien. Skien is also the capital of Vestfold og Telemark county. Skien is one of Norway's oldest cities, with an urban history dating back to the Middle Ages, and received privileges as a market town in 1358. From the 15th century, the city was governed by a 12-member council. The modern municipality of Skien was established on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The rural municipalities of Gjerpen and Solum were merged into the municipality of Skien on 1 January 1964. The conurbation of Porsgrunn/Skien is reckoned by Statistics Norway to be the seventh largest urban area in Norway, straddling an area of three municipalities: Skien municipality (abou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Blom Paus
Christopher Blom Paus (8 October 1810 – 28 October 1898) was a Norwegian shipowner, merchant and banker. Biography Paus was born at the estate Rising Nordre in Gjerpen, Norway. Born into the patriciate of the port town of Skien, he was the son of shipowner Ole Paus and Johanne Plesner (formerly married Ibsen). He was the uncle of playwright Henrik Ibsen, as he was both the half brother of Ibsen's father Knud Ibsen and the first cousin of Ibsen's mother Marichen Altenburg. He was the brother of judge, Bratsberg governor and Member of Parliament Christian Cornelius Paus and lawyer Henrik Johan Paus. Christopher Blom Paus owned the house at Snipetorp where the Ibsen family lived from the time of Henrik Ibsen's confirmation in 1843 to 1865. Paus started as a wholesaler and eventually concentrated mainly on shipping business. He entered his business career as a clerk in his brother's trading shop. Paus worked from the late 1820s until 1836 for merchant Christopher Hansen Blom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marichen Altenburg
Marichen Cornelia Martine Altenburg (24 April 1799 – 3 June 1869) was the mother of the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen and is known as the model for several characters in some of Ibsen's most famous plays, including Åse in ''Peer Gynt''.Robert Ferguson, ''Henrik Ibsen. A New Biography'', Richard Cohen Books, London 1996 Early life Marichen Altenburg was born in Skien as the daughter of the merchant Johan Andreas Altenburg (1763–1824) and Hedevig Christine Paus (1763–1848). Her father was a shipowner, timber merchant and owned a liquor distillery at Lundetangen and a farm outside of town; her mother had been born in Upper Telemark to a family that belonged to the regional elite there, the "aristocracy of officials". She grew up in the stately Altenburg house in central Skien. Marriage On 1 December 1825, she married Knud Ibsen, who had established himself as an independent merchant in Skien earlier in that year. Knud Ibsen was the step-son of her uncle, shipowner Ole Pau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altenburggården
Altenburggården (Altenburg House) was a large town house in central Skien, Norway, known as the childhood home of the playwright Henrik Ibsen and his mother Marichen Altenburg. It burned down during the great fire of 1886. It was located at the address Skistredet 20. History The house is named for the wealthy Skien merchant Johan Andreas Altenburg (1763–1824), Henrik Ibsen's maternal grandfather, who was most likely its first owner. J mesBorchsenius (1934). ''Skien før branden 1886''. Oslo: Fabritius & sønners forlag. He was a shipowner, timber merchant and owned a liquor distillery at Lundetangen. Altenburggården had no garden, but the Altenburg family owned a farm outside the city, Århus. Johan Andreas Altenburg was married to Hedevig Christine Paus (1763–1848), and after her husband's death she became the owner of the house in 1824. Their daughter Marichen Altenburg (1799–1869)—Henrik Ibsen's mother—grew up in Altenburggården. Hedevig's father moved into the ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jørgen Haave
Jørgen Haave (born 1971) is a Norwegian literary scholar and the senior curator and director of the Henrik Ibsen Museum in Skien, a part of Telemark Museum. He is especially known for his Ibsen biography, ''Familien Ibsen'' (2017), and is one of the foremost contemporary Ibsen scholars; alongside Jon Nygaard he has been central in a scholarly reassessment of older myths pertaining to Ibsen's background and childhood, and their influence upon his work. Haave published a biography of Peter Wessel Zapffe in 1999 and graduated in history of literature in 2003 with a thesis on Ibsen's ''Ghosts A ghost is the soul or spirit of a dead person or animal that is believed to be able to appear to the living. In ghostlore, descriptions of ghosts vary widely from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes, to rea ...''. He was appointed as director of Henrik Ibsen Museum in 2008. He was awarded the second prize of the Hjernekraft prize of the Norwegian Associa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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