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Niels Klim's Journey Under the Ground, is a satirical science-fiction/fantasy novel and is also the only novel written by the NorwegianDanish author Ludvig Holberg. It describes a utopian society from an outsider's point of view, and often pokes fun at diverse cultural and social topics such as morality, science, sexual equality, religion, governments, and philosophy.
Erasmus Montanus oder Rasmus Berg (German Edition)
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Niels Klim's Journey under the Ground; Being a Narrative of His Wonderful Descent to the Subterranean Lands; Together with an Account of the Sensible. Inhabiting the Planet Nazar and the Firmament
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Second Edition A science fiction novel by Ludvig Holberg that must probably count as the earliest forerunner of Jule Verne's "Journey to the Centre of the Earth". It is the entertaining story of a man who travels into an underground world where he comes upon a society very different from ours.
Jeppe of the Hill and Other Comedies by Ludvig Holberg
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These eight comedies comprise the most extensive collec...)
These eight comedies comprise the most extensive collection of Ludvig Holberg plays ever offered in the English language.
The translators general introductions establish a cultural context for the comedies and break new ground in understanding the importance of Holbergs comic aesthetic. Argetsingers extensive experience in theatre and Rossels preeminence as a Scandinavian Studies scholar assure that the translations are not only accurate but stage-worthy.
The collection opens with The Political Tinker, the first Danish play to be produced in the new Danish Theatre, and ends with The Burial of Danish Comedy, literally the funeral service for the bankrupt theatre. Three more of Holbergs renowned character comedies follow, Jean de France, Jeppe of the Hill, and Erasmus Montanus, along with his literary satire Ulysses von Ithacia. The final two plays demonstrate his ability to write shorter comic works, The Christmas Party, a scathing comedy of manners, and Pernilles Brief Experience as a Lady, a situation comedy that satirizes the practice of baby-switching.
The Journey of Niels Klim to the World Underground (Bison Frontiers of Imagination)
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Fantastic adventures at the center of the earth await a penniless Norwegian student after he plunges into a bottomless hole in a cave. Niels Klim discovers worlds within our ownexotic civilizations and fabulous creatures scattered across the underside of the earth's crust and, at the earth's center, a small, inhabited planet orbiting around a miniature sun. In an epic journey, Klim visits countries led by sentient and contemplative trees, a kingdom of intelligent apes preoccupied with fashion and change, a land whose inhabitants dont speak out of their mouths, neighboring countries of birds locked in an eternal war, and a land where string basses talk musically to one another. Brave, inquisitive, and greedy, Klim faces many challenges, the greatest of which are his own temptations.
The Journey of Niels Klim to the World Underground is a classic in speculative fiction and was the first fully realized novel set underground in a hollow earth. First published in 1741, it has earned comparisons to Jonathan Swifts contemporaneous fantasy, Gullivers Travels.
Ulysses von Ithacia oder Eine deutsche Komödie (German Edition)
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Comedies by Holberg : Jeppe of the Hill, The Political Tinker, Erasmus Montanus
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Ludvig Holberg, Baron of Holberg was a writer, essayist, philosopher, historian and playwright born in Bergen, Norway, during the time of the Dano-Norwegian double monarchy, who spent most of his adult life in Denmark.
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Jeppe of the Hill: And other Comedies by Ludvig Holberg
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These eight comedies comprise the most extensive collec...)
These eight comedies comprise the most extensive collection of Ludvig Holberg plays ever offered in the English language.
The translators general introductions establish a cultural context for the comedies and break new ground in understanding the importance of Holbergs comic aesthetic. Argetsingers extensive experience in theatre and Rossels preeminence as a Scandinavian Studies scholar assure that the translations are not only accurate but stage-worthy.
The collection opens with The Political Tinker, the first Danish play to be produced in the new Danish Theatre, and ends with The Burial of Danish Comedy, literally the funeral service for the bankrupt theatre. Three more of Holbergs renowned character comedies follow, Jean de France, Jeppe of the Hill, and Erasmus Montanus, along with his literary satire Ulysses von Ithacia. The final two plays demonstrate his ability to write shorter comic works, The Christmas Party, a scathing comedy of manners, and Pernilles Brief Experience as a Lady, a situation comedy that satirizes the practice of baby-switching.
Ludvig Holberg (Baron of Holberg) was a writer, essayist, philosopher, historian and playwright born in Bergen, Norway, during the time of the Dano-Norwegian double monarchy.
Background
Holberg was born on 3 December, 1684 in Bergen, Denmark-Norway. Both Holberg's parents died in his childhood, his father first, leaving a considerable property; and in his eleventh year he lost his mother also.
For the first three years after the death of his parents, Holberg lived with a pastor in Norway's Gudbrand Valley, where his interest in literature and language was noticed and somewhat supported.
Holberg was a Norwegian, but since he spent more than half his life in Denmark, he is also considered a Dane, and he has the unique distinction of being known as the father of the literature of two countries.
Education
In 1695 the boy Holberg was taken into the house of his uncle, Peder Lem, who sent him to the Latin school, and prepared him for the profession of a soldier; but soon after this he was adopted by his cousin Otto Munthe, and went to him up in the mountains.
There, Holberg was educated at the Bergen Grammar School.
By the time he graduated Holberg was determined to see the world and traveled to Holland in 1704.
Holberg amassed enough funds to resume his travels and further his education.
Attended Oxford University
He studied history, languages, and literature and was exposed to the ideas of the Enlightenment.
When he was 18 years old, Holberg entered the University of Copenhagen and took his degree in theology-philosophy within two years after spending a year working as a tutor in Norway.
From 1706 to 1708, he lived in England, primarily in London.
While in England, Holberg spent two years at the Bodeleian Library at Oxford University.
Before returning to Denmark, he also studied in Leipzig in late 1708 and early 1709, then moved to Copenhagen.
There he became a fellow of Borch's Kollegium, which supported scholars who had no money so they could continue to study.
The success of this volume led to Holberg being given a royal grant that allowed him to continue his education and travel.
Career
Because of a lack of funds he had to return home on foot in 1705.
Again living in Bergen, Holberg saved money by working as a French tutor and supplemented this income by teaching other languages in Kristianland, a city located in the south of Norway.
In the spring of 1706 he travelled, in company with a student named Brix, through London to Oxford, where he studied for two years, gaining his livelihood by giving lessons on the violin and the flute.
In 1714 Holberg traveled to major cities in France, Italy, and the Netherlands using his preferred method of travel: by foot.
When Holberg returned to Denmark in 1716 he published Introduction til naturensog Copenhagen, a book about natural law and natural rights.
However, he was now required to teach metaphysics, a subject he disliked, and he avoided lecturing as much as possible.
His first work of significance was Peder Paars, published under the pen name Hans Mikkelsen in 1719-1720.
Pedar Paars, a 6, 000-line epic poem, is a parody of Virgil's Aeneid that mocks Danish society and the social conditions of its author's day.
In 1722 the first Danish-language theater opened in Copenhagen on Lille Gronnedgrade.
Many of Holberg's plays used Danish manners, pretensions, words, and class differences as a target of satire, using stock and stereotypical characters.
Among his best plays were Den politiske Kandestober (The Political Tinker); Den Vaegelsindede (The Weathervane); Jean de France; Jeppe paa Bjerget (Jeppe of the Hill); Ulysses von Itacia; Den Bundeslose (The Fidget); and Erasmus Montanus.
The first play by Holberg performed there was Den politiske Kanderstober (The Political Tinker, 1722).
The central character in this play, Herman von Breman, wants to become the mayor of Hamburg though he had no political experience.
Jeppe of the Hill is considered by many to be Holberg's best known comedy.
Jean de France is about a Francophile Dane who goes to Paris and tries to be French.
At the same time, his fiancée Elsebet is in love with someone else, and he is gotten rid of by her servants.
In 1723 Holberg wrote Erasmus Montanus, another social comedy.
Though his real name is Rasmus Berg, when he returns from school the farmer's son re-names himself Montanus and Latinizes his speech.
While Holberg was establishing himself as a successful playwright he also continued to travel.
In 1725-1726, he went to Paris, and many of his plays of this period were influenced by Moliére because both playwrights used the dramatic devise of the central character being confused and his confusion driving the drama of the play.
At the center of this work is an idealistic main character, Vielgeschrey, who makes much out of the minutiae of life.
These plays included Henrik og Pernille (Henry and Pernilla) and Mascarade (Masquerades).
In 1727 the theater on Lille Gronnedgrade closed because of funding problems.
Holberg wrote a play to commemorate its closing, Funeral of Danish Comedy, and continued to write plays for other venues.
In 1731 he published all his performed plays plus ten new plays, then took a break from playwriting until late in life.
As Holberg's work responsibilities changed, so did the subject of his writing.
In 1741 Holberg published a political and social satire titled Nicolai Klimii iter Subterraneum (The Journey of Niels Klim to the World Underground).
An early science fiction novel written in Latin that focuses on a man, Klim, who falls into the center of the earth and finds a utopia where women are the dominant sex.
He revealed more about himself in the five volumes of Epistler (1748 - 1754), which contains several hundred letters and essays on various subjects, including dogmas and metaphysical ideas of the day.
In 1751 he wrote Moralske Fabler (Moral Fables) .
These 200 pieces were influenced by Ovid's Metamorphoses and are more cynical and negative than Holberg's previous works.
Holberg was particularly fond of Terslosegaard in central Zeeland.
The year Holberg was named a baron, the new Danish National Theater was founded.
The University of Copenhagen was not happy that he did not leave his money to them.
Long after his death, Holberg's plays in Danish were still being performed.
There was critical debate over his work, though he was generally considered the father of Danish and Norwegian literature.
He greatly influenced another Scandinavian playwright, Henrik Ibsen.
Statues of him are located in both Norway and Denmark, at the National Theatre of Oslo and Royal Theatre of Copenhagen respectively.
Holberg was open to biblical criticism, and Holberg's religious representation was, for the most part, deism. He was critical of the notion of original sin, instead subscribing to the notion of man's free will.
Holberg's declared intentions with his authorship were to enlighten people to better society. This also fits in with the picture of Holberg as of the age of enlightenment.
Views
Holberg believed in people's inner divine light of reason, and to him it was important that the first goal of education was to teach students to use their senses and intellect, instead of uselessly memorising school books.
This was a new, modern understanding of the question of religion, and it shows he was a man of the Age of Enlightenment.
Holberg was interested in intellect because he felt that this is what binds society together.
He also wondered why there was so much evil in the world, especially when one could let reason lead the way.
One could say that he distanced himself from a religious explanation of evil towards a rational/empirical train of thought, and this is important because of his status as an author; both in his time and ours.
Personality
Quotes from others about the person
As S. C. Hammer wrote in his book, Ludvig Holberg, "wherever you go in Denmark and Norway Holberg's name is familiar.
Words and sayings of his live on the lips of both nations as colloquial terms.
He sits in bronze in an armchair outside the main entrance of the Royal Theatre at Copenhagen; his noble sepulchre is at Soro, a dreaming little site of learning in Zeeland … [H]e is the pride of his townsmen, who cherish his memory. "
Connections
Holberg was both unmarried and childless, but in the end of his life had a small fortune.