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Johannes Vilhelm Jensen was born on January 20, 1873, in Farsø, a village in North Jutland. He was the second son of Hans Jensen, and Marie (Kirstine) Jensen. His family came from what has been described as old peasant stock. Both his mother and father descended from farmers and craftsmen.
Jensen was taught by his mother until the age of eleven. Under the influence of his father, he developed a fasciation for Darwinism, which became the cornerstone of his thinking. Jensen graduated from the Cathedral School of Viborg in 1893. The same year Jensen was accepted by th University of Copenhagen to study medicine. After three years of studying he chose to change careers and devote himself fully to literature.
While still attending the University of Copenhagen, Jensen managed to write two novels: Danskere (1896) and Einar Elkjær (1898). Like much of his early writings, these works were set in his native province of Himmerland. Jensen's early output also included genre fiction. He wrote romantic stories and turned out a series of detective novels that were published in a weekly periodical under the pseudonym "Ivar Lykke. "
In 1898 Jensen went to Spain and Germany as a correspondent, and in 1900 he attended the World's fair in Paris. Jensen developed a taste for travel and a longing for foreign places, and in 1902 he left for Singapore, from where he went to Malaysia, Shanghai, Japan, and then, crossing the Pacific, to san Francisco, Chicago, New York, returning to Denmark in 1903. In 1904 he published the novel Madame d'Ora, a collection of stories, New Himmerland Stories (Nye Himmerlandshistorier), and the travelogue The Woods. The novel The Wheel (Hjulet) and a collection of poems appeared in 1905.
Also in 1905 he renewed his collaboration with the publication Politiken. In October 1906 after travelling to New York, he started translating American novelist Frank Noriss's novel the Octopus. The translation was published in Denmark in the same year.
The year 1906 was decisive for Jensen:he embarked on writing about the problems concerning the theory of evolution. In 1908 there appeared the first volume of Jensen's great epic in six volumes, the Long Journey (Den Lange Reise), in which he portrayes the rise of man from the primitive times to the discovery of America by Columbus. The epic was published from 1908 to 1922 and demostrates Jensen's poetic skills.
In 1912 Jensen started on his second great journey, traveling to Berlin, Colombo, Singapore, Peking, Manchuria, and returning home through Siberia. During the years of World War I, he focused on writing the Long Journey.
Another voyage Jensen undertook started in 1925. This time he went to Berlin, Egypt, and Palestine, regularly sending letters to the newspaper Social-Demokraten. He reflected on the journey two books: the Light of the World (Verdens Lys) and The Transformation of the Animals (Dyrenes Forvandling), presenting a development of evolutionary theories. After his next journey in 1928, Jensen continued writing The Stages of Mind (Aandens Stadier).
By this time Jensen was widely recognized as a prominent author, and in 1929 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Lund in Swden.
Before World War II, Jensen visited the United States again, but the outbreak of the war prevented his planned travel to France. When the Germans occupied Denmark on April 9, 1940, Jensen burned his diaries and letters that chronicled the past 30 years, so this part of his writing is lost to posteriority.
During the war years he wrote mostly articles on art criticism and anthropology as well as a history of civilization, Our Origin (Vor Oprindelse).
In the last years of Jensen's life, his productivity decreased, and his writings mostly concentrated on the studies of evolution and popularization of the theory of evolution. The purpose of Jensen's last trip to France in1948 was to study the regions from which knowledge of prehistoric man originated. In 1949 he published the book Africa (Afrika), a work again reflecting his interest in natural science.
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen died on November 25, 1950, leaving a rich heritage of poems, essays, novels, works that would influence generations of Danish writers and readers.
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen is considered the first great Danish writer of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1944 "for the rare strength and fertility of his poetic imagination with which is combined an intellectual curiosity of wide scope and a bold, freshly creative style".
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Quotations:
For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper.
The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work.
A probing analysis of the problems of evolution forms the basis of my prose.
During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms.
In 1905 Johannes V. Jensen married Else Marie Ulrik, they had three sons.
