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Jens Peter Jacobsen was born on April 7, 1847 in Thisted in Jutland, Denmark. He was the eldest of the five children of a prosperous merchant.
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Jens Peter Jacobsen was born on April 7, 1847 in Thisted in Jutland, Denmark. He was the eldest of the five children of a prosperous merchant.
He went to school in Copenhagen and was a student at the University of Copenhagen in 1868. As a university student he specialized in natural sciences; later he translated Darwin's The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man into Danish. In 1873 he won a university gold medal for a scientific dissertation.
In 1870, although he was already secretly writing poetry, Jacobsen adopted botany as a profession. He was sent by a scientific body in Copenhagen to report on the flora of the islands of Anholt and Læso. Around this time, the discoveries of Charles Darwin began to fascinate him. Realizing that the work of Darwin was not well known in Denmark, he translated The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man into Danish.
His articles on Charles Darwin and his translations of Origin of Species and Descent of Man did much to spread Darwin's theories in Scandinavia.
Parallel with his scientific work, he wrote poetry.
Jacobsen made his debut in 1872 with the story "Mogens, " a controversial departure in Danish literature.
He abandoned his scientific plans and devoted his last 12 years to literature, producing under the most difficult conditions two remarkable novels and a handful of poems and stories, a small production that yet ranks with the most original and enduring works in Danish literature.
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Jacobsen was an atheist.
In the early 1870 he became an influential member of the circle around Georg Brandes, who was beginning his agitation for a modern, realistic literature based on European models.