Copenhagen
Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...
– 21 November 1892 in
Frederiksberg
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) was a
Danish
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People
* A national or citizen of Denmark, also called a "Dane," see Demographics of Denmark
* Culture of Denmark
* Danish people or Danes, people with a Danish a ...
poet
A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...
,
dramatist
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays.
Etymology
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and
priest
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. Comforting and encouraging the people, he created poems that filled the hearts of his compatriots. His precise personal and environmental descriptions, as well as succinct dialogue, were welcomed by the critics and contemporaries. His dramas were on current topics such as feminism, free love and home, maybe one of the reasons why he often used the pseudonym Jens Kristrup (Christrup).
Life
Son of Peter Hostrup and Carol Anne Johanne, née Irgens, the young Jens was raised in a musical family. His father played the violin, but died shortly after 1830. He began his studies at the Metropolitan College and was admitted to the literature and drama class in 1837. After 1837 he began studying
theology
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. He lived in the students dorm and took part in student associations, entering into a number of contacts and making new friends, including the writer
Adam Oehlenschläger
Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger (14 November 177920 January 1850) was a Danish poet and playwright. He introduced romanticism into Danish literature. He wrote the lyrics to the song ''Der er et yndigt land'', which is one of the national anthems ...
, and gaining literary experience. He graduated as Cand. theol. in 1843. After his studies, Hostrup worked as a
tutor
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and
pastor
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.
In 1844 he wrote the comedy ''Gjenboerne'' for the party of the students association, and after that he began to write a songplay, an act which inspired the poets Johan Ludvig Heiberg and
Ferdinand Raimund
Ferdinand Raimund (born Ferdinand Jakob Raimann; 1 June 1790 – 5 September 1836, Pottenstein, Lower Austria) was an Austrian actor and dramatist.
Life and work
He was born in Vienna as a son of Bohemian woodturning master craftsman Jako ...
. While he was tutor at
Kokkedal
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from 1844–47, he wrote ''Intrigues'' in 1845, ''A sparrow in Crane Dance'' in 1846 and ''Tales of Walking Tour'' in 1847, and more dramas in various genres followed. His first marriage was with Henriette Wilhelmine Louise Mantzius (1824–1849) on 2 November 1848. She was the sister of his friend, actor
Kristian Mantzius
Kristian Andreas Leopold Mantzius (4 November 1819 – 5 June 1879) was a Danish language, Danish actor.
Early life and education
Kristian Mantzius was born in Viborg, son of General, Gen. Karl Johan Peter Mantzius (1791-1859) and Mette Mari ...
. After her death he traveled to
Rome
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in 1854 and on his return became pastor of
Silkeborg
Silkeborg () is a Danish town with a population of 49,747 (1 January 2022). He became then engaged with Christiane Georgine Elizabeth Hauch, daughter of Carsten Hauch, with whom he married in 1855. They had one son named Helge Hostrup (1862–1949). In 1862 he became pastor of
Frederiksborg Castle
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in
Hillerød
Hillerød () is a Denmark, Danish town with a population of 35,357 (1 January 2022)Hillerød Rectory.
Hostrup published two collections of poems, ''Sermons'' in 1866, and the devotional book ''The resurrection and the life'' in 1883, ''Popular Lectures'' in 1882 and ''The defeat'' in 1864. In 1872 appeared ''Songs and poems from thirty years,'' in 1884 ''Songs and poems from the past few years'' and after his death came in 1893 ''Posthumous Poems.'' His only hymn ''Christmas message to those who build'' has a background in heavy personal sorrows and the illness that forced him from office in 1881. He moved to Frederiksberg and died there on 21 November 1892. He is buried at Frederiksberg Old Cemetery.
The street Hostrups Vej and the residential functionalist complex
Hostrups Have
Hostrups Have ( lit. "Hostrup's Garden") is a famous functionalist housing estate and associated green space located at the corner of Falkoner Allé and Rolighedsvej in the Frederiksberg district of Copenhagen, Denmark. Designed by Danish arch ...
in Copenhagen are named after Jens Christian Hostrup
Literature
* ''Genboerne'' (1844)
* ''Tales of Journey on Foot'' (1847)
* ''Recollections of my Childhood and Youth'' (1891)
* ''Later Memoirs'' (1893)
* ''Comedy'' (1900)
* ''Jens Christian Hostrup : hans liv og gerning'' 'Jens Christian Hostrup: His Life and Work''by Helge Hostrup, Copenhagen: Gyldendal (1916),
Jens Christian Hostrup
Jens Christian Hostrup (20 May 1818 in Copenhagen – 21 November 1892 in Frederiksberg) was a Danish poet, dramatist and priest. Comforting and encouraging the people, he created poems that filled the hearts of his compatriots. His precise person ...