Carl Ewald (, 15 October 185623 February 1908) was a Danish

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and

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known for his

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Biography

Carl Ewald was born on 15 October 1856 in Bredelykke by Gram in the

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(present-day

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). He was named after and he had twelve siblings. His father, was an author. He was educated at the

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, where his family had moved to after the Duchy of Schleswig fell to the German Confederation in 1864. From 1880 to 1883 he was a school director in

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. His first literary work was published in 1882. After spending a few years as a forester, he turned to literature in 1887, issuing school texts and translations. In 1893 he had a son, Jesper Ewald, with Betty Ponsaing. In 1894, due to an extramarital relationship he had with

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, Ewald's second son

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was born. The relationship ended in a divorce. Ewald died in

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(near

) on 23 February 1908. He was buried in

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Works

* ''Singleton's Udenlandsrejse'' (1894) * ''Glaede over Danmark'' (1898) * ''Sulasmiths Have'' (1898) * ''Der Kinderkreuzzug'' (''The Children's Crusade'', 1896) * ''Mein Kleiner Junge'' (''My little boy'', 1899) * ''Crumlin'' (1900) Several of his works have been translated into English.

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* * * * * 1856 births 1908 deaths University of Copenhagen alumni Danish male novelists 19th-century Danish novelists 19th-century male writers {{Denmark-writer-stub