Frantz Johannes Hansen (4 September 1810 in Copenhagen – 14 March 1852) was a
Danish
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author and was also an amateur musician. He is buried at
Assistens Cemetery
Assistens Cemetery ( da, Assistens Kirkegård) is the name of a number of cemeteries in Denmark. The common nominator is, as the first part of the name implies (Latin: ''assistens'' meaning assisting), an assisting cemetery for a town's churches. ...
in
Copenhagen.
Life
Frantz Johannes Hansen showed poetic talents at an early age. He studied with
Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen ( , ; 2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales.
Andersen's fairy tales, consisti ...
, and also took classes from
Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse
Christoph(er) Ernst Friedrich Weyse (5 March 1774 – 8 October 1842) was a Denmark, Danish composer during the Danish Golden Age.
Biography
Weyse was born at Altona, Hamburg, Altona in Holstein, which was in a personal union with Denmark. ...
in 1828.
While studying in college, Hansen published some poems in 1832 and his book ''Læsning for den fine Verden'' (Reading for the Fine World). From this book he received the nickname "Fine Hansen." In 1834, Hansen received a law degree, which later earned him a modest living, first working in the Archives Office. In 1848, he worked with the Ministry of Justice. Hansen, who enjoyed the outdoors, felt trapped inside his workplace. However, in his leisure time he continued to pursue his literary ambitions: in 1839 he issued a volume of Romantic poems, which contained one of his best-known pieces, "Korsaren og hans Brud" (The Corsair and his Bride). Under the pseudonym Torkel Trane, he published the novel ''Let Sind og Letsind'' (Light Mind and frivolity). Hansen attempted dramatic writing, some of which appeared at the
Royal Danish Theatre, but did not have a successful debut. A comedy, ''En liden Hemmelighed'' (A Little Secret), was performed several times in 1894, and was probably his most successful dramatic work. After Hansen's death, his collection ''Lyriske Digte'' (Lyrical Poems, 1852) was published with a preface that gives a brief biography of the writer.
Notable works include ''6 Galopper til Studenterforeningen'' (1836).
See also
*
List of Danish composers
External links
Frantz Johannes Hansenat Gravsted.dk (Danish)
References
1810 births
1852 deaths
Danish male poets
19th-century Danish poets
19th-century male writers
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