Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen was born in 1828 in Skien, Norway, into a merchant family whose business failed when he was a boy. At fifteen he was apprenticed to a pharmacist in Grimstad, and he wrote his first play while studying to enter university. He then worked for years as a writer and stage director at theaters in Bergen and Christiania (now Oslo), learning stagecraft. In 1864 he left Norway and lived for twenty-seven years in Italy and Germany. His verse dramas Brand (1866) and Peer Gynt (1867) made his name. He then wrote prose plays about middle-class life that questioned social conventions: A Doll's House (1879), in which Nora Helmer leaves her husband and children to find her own identity, caused great controversy; Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, The Wild Duck and Hedda Gabler followed. Their realistic dialogue and serious subjects changed European theater. He returned to Norway in 1891 and was celebrated as a national figure. After a series of strokes, he died in Christiania in 1906.

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Faith: Baptized in the Lutheran state church of Norway; his adult beliefs are not well documented. Source: Wikipedia