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Marichen Altenburg (married Ibsen), far right, with parents and relatives. Henrik Ibsen's ancestry has been a much studied subject, due to his perceived foreignness [1] (leading his biographer Henrik Jæger to famously state that "the ancestral Ibsen was a Dane") [2] and due to the influence of his biography and family on his plays.
It was published by Museumsforlaget and Telemark Museum in 2017. The book is based on a systematic, critical reassessment of the knowledge about Ibsen's childhood and family – that is, the closely intertwined Ibsen, Paus and Altenburg merchant family of Skien – which is placed in a broader context.
Ibsen often made references to his family in his plays, sometimes by name, or by modelling characters after them. The oldest documented member of the Ibsen family was ship's captain Rasmus Ibsen (1632–1703) from Stege, Denmark. His son, ship's captain Peder Ibsen, became a burgher of Bergen in Norway in 1726. [67]
Hedevig Altenburg transferred the building to her son-in-law Knud Ibsen in 1830, and the Ibsen family moved in during 1831. Henrik Ibsen lived there from 1831 until 1836. In 1835 Knud Ibsen sold Altenburggården to the merchant Teleph Stub Plesner (1811–1852), and the Ibsen family moved to their country house Venstøp the following year. [3]
A silhouette of the family in Altenburggården (ca. 1820). Marichen to the far right, her parents in the centre. It is the only existing portrait of her. 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. [1]
He was the father of Marichen Altenburg (1799–1869) and thus the maternal grandfather of playwright Henrik Ibsen. Following his death and his daughter's marriage to Knud Ibsen in 1825, his considerable fortune passed to his son-in-law, who however went almost bankrupt due to failed speculations in the mid-1830s. Almost the entire family ...
Pages in category "Ibsen family" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Johan Andreas Altenburg;
Henrik Ibsen was born in Stockmanngården in 1828. In 1830 Marichen's mother Hedevig left Altenburggården and her properties and business ventures to her son-in-law Knud, and the Ibsen family moved to Marichen's childhood home in 1831. During the 1820s and 1830s Knud was a wealthy young merchant in Skien, and he was the city's 16th largest ...