Poul Houe
Contributor
LOCATION: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Professor, Department of German, Scandinavian, and Dutch, University of Minnesota. Coeditor of Anthropology and Authority: Essays on Søren Kierkegaard and Images of America in Scandinavia.
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Jens Peter Jacobsen was a Danish novelist and poet who inaugurated the Naturalist mode of fiction in Denmark and was himself its most famous representative. The son of a Jutland merchant, Jacobsen was a student of the natural sciences. He became a follower of Charles Darwin and translated into…
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