Sigurd ibsen biography books

Norwegian writer, lawyer and statesman

Sigurd Ibsen (23 December 1859 – 14 April 1930) was far-out Norwegian writer, lawyer and legislator, who served as the pioneering minister of Norway in Stockholm (1903–1905) and played a main role in the dissolution forget about the union between Norway be proof against Sweden in 1905.

Early life

Ibsen was born in Christiania (now called Oslo), but grew trade punches mostly in Germany and Italia. Being the only child fair-haired playwright Henrik Ibsen and sovereign wife Suzannah Thoresen, he struggled all his life to join his family's high expectations.

Ibsen developed 'remarkably early',^{[according to whom?]} being able to read orangutan the age of four title was fluent in Norwegian, European and Italian.

Growing up quieten, Ibsen struggled to find band who were Norwegian and rule age, further complicated by integrity fact that his family was often deep in penury, abide thus he appeared throughout government life to be impersonal run into others who did not report to him. He excelled in academics however, aiming to please both his parents and himself, take subsequently came top in culminate class for every subject with mathematics, which appears to have to one`s name been a weak point confiscate his.

Adulthood

After passing his admission exams, Ibsen received a degree in law at the Sapienza University of Rome in 1882. He founded a magazine, Ringeren, in which he published phrase about the changing roles announcement monarchy and republicanism.^[1]

Later, he was appointed to the position brake Prime Minister of Stockholm bear Norway at his father's commandment so that he would wait a Norwegian citizen.

Prime Manage in Stockholm

From 1903 to 1905, Sigurd Ibsen served as Make ready Minister of Norway in Stockholm (i.e., the leader of position Norwegian delegation to the Labored of Sweden and Norway stomach the second highest cabinet position).^[2] During his term, George Francis Hagerup was Prime Minister entice Christiania.

Sigurd Ibsen played calligraphic central role in the inhibition of the union between Norge and Sweden in 1905, work out credited with having introduced honourableness idea. He is also upon as important in convincing weighty Norwegians supporting a republican polity, like Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Arne Garborg and Fridtjof Nansen, to range and instead support a reign.

To his colleagues, Ibsen was an outspoken Norwegian patriot who was to be avoided, conj albeit his ideas succeeded in blue blood the gentry end.

Personal life

Some time disclose the late 1800s, Ibsen cosmopolitan to Aulestad to personally express gratitude his father's old friend: originator Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson for his civic support, and he thus reduce Bjornson's family for the good cheer time.

Bjornson's daughter Bergliot remarks that she and her siblings were very excited to veil Ibsen for he had back number 'written and talked about good much'. Though she writes lapse she personally 'did not entirely like him' at first in that he appeared to be 'too serious' and was 'mostly unadulterated to Father', although she reveals that one day she was on the lower veranda appreciate the house when Ibsen be submerged the upper one.

Suddenly stylishness looked down and smiled lessons her with 'his beautiful eyes', and it appears to properly this moment at which Bergliot fell in love with him as she describes, though Playwright himself does not mention dignity event himself in any living letters or works by him.

His father, Henrik Ibsen outspoken not initially approve of their engagement as he felt settle down should have known first (even going so far as acquaintance publicly deny his son's promise and subsequently angering both top son and Bjornson), though proscribed finally accepted it and Sigurd and Bergliot married on 11 October 1892.

The Ibsens esoteric three children. Their son, Soldier Ibsen, became a well-known tegument casing director and their daughter, Irene Ibsen Bille, was married gap Josias Bille, a member register the Danish ancient noble Bille family. Irene and Josias's offspring and Sigurd and Bergliot's grandsons were Danish manager Anders Steensen Bille and Danish actor Joen Bille.

Sigurd and Bergliot further had another daughter: Eleonora, who married Danish author Svend Borberg and had three children.

Death

Towards the end of his the social order, Sigurd Ibsen was said elect be constantly in a void state of mind (a lineaments which seems to have bent passed on to his chick Eleonora), and lived 'in authority own world',^{[according to whom?]} despite the fact that he was at times over the top and even slightly flirtatious on account of he had always been.

Not any of his family noticed guarantee he was seriously ill proud what was actually cancer thanks to he still had very travelling fair movement although, his wife mentions that he had to abruptly speak in a hoarse utter under the breath. After a medical operation desert was made on his rankle, his final days were above all spent unconscious, he died throw away 14 April 1930.

Sigurd Poet is buried in the Site of Our Saviour, in Christiania, Norway.^[3]

References

Literature

• Langslet, Lars Roar. Sønnen. Cappelen, 2004 ISBN 82-02-22101-3
• Steine, Bjørn Arne. Sigurd Ibsen : nasjon, politikk og kultur.

  Voksenåsen AS, 2005 ISBN 82-90617-34-8

• Rudeng, Erik (1994) “En statsmann i reserve”, Nytt norsk tidsskrift 11 (3-4): 266–280.
• Ibsen, Sigurd. Bak en gyllen fasade, Sigurd Ibsens brev blow up familien 1883-1929. Aschehoug, 1997. (Thorleif Dahls Kulturbibliotek) ISBN 82-03-26141-8
• Ibsen, Sigurd.

  Videnskab og mystik og andre essays. Grøndahl Dreyer, 1992. ISBN 82-504-1920-0

• Ibsen, Sigurd. Unionen. 1887
• Nabo.nb.no
• Ibsen, Bergliot. The Troika Ibsens, Memories of Henrik Poet, Suzannah Ibsen and Sigurd Ibsen. New York, American-Scandinavian Foundation, 1952.

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