Hans Christian Andersen

Chronology

Sven Hakon Rossel

Note : this Chronology first appeared in Hans Christian Andersen: Danish Writer and Citizen of the World (1996—edited by Sven Hakon Rossel; Rodopi). It appears here with grateful acknowledgements to Prof. Rossel.

1805

Hans Christian Andersen was born in Odense, Denmark, on April 2.

1819

Leaves Odense for Copenhagen.

1819-22

Lives in Copenhagen.

1822

Youthful Attempts; Andersen’s debut as a writer.

1822-27

Attends school in Slagelse and Elsinore.

1828

Passes the entrance exam at the University of Copenhagen.

1829

A Walking Tour from Holmen’s Canal to the Eastern Point of Amager in the Years 1828 and 1829 ; debut as a playwright with Love in Saint Nicholas Church Tower.

1830

Poems.

1831

Fantasies and Sketches. First journey abroad to Germany; encounter with Lugwig Tieck in Dresden. Shadow Pictures from a Journey to the Harz Mountains and Saxon Switzerland, etc. etc., in the Summer of 1831 ; Andersen’s first travelogue.

1833

Collected Poems.

1833-34

Journey to France and Italy; meets Heinrich Heine and Victor Hugo in Paris; Bertel Thorvaldsen in Rome. Visiting Munich and Vienna.

1835

The Improvisatore ; Andersen’s first novel; Fairy Tales, Told for Children ; Andersen’s first collection of Tales.

1835-41

Five additional collection of tales.

1836

O.T.

1837

Only a Fiddler . Journey to Sweden; meets Frederika Bremer.

1839

Picture Book without Pictures.

1840

The Mulatto; The Moorish Maid.

1840-41

Journey to Italy, Greece and Constantinople; returning via the Balkans, Dresden and Leipzig, where Andersen meets Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.

1841

Meets Franz Liszt in Copenhagen.

1842

A Poet’s Bazaar.

1843

Meets Clara Schumann in Copenhagen. Journey to France and Germany; falls in love with Jenny Lind.

1843-48

Five collections of tales.

1844

Journey to Germany; meets the hereditary Grand Duke Carl Alexander of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach. Receives an Invitation to visit King Christian VIII on the North Frisian island of Föhr.

1845-46

Journey to Germany, Austria and Italy. Receives, on January 6, 1846, the Knighthood of the Red Eagle from King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia.

1847

The True Story of My Life. Journey to England and Scotland. Meets Charles Dickens.

1848

The Two Baronesses.

1849

Journey to Sweden. Invitation from King Oscar I.

1851-52

Journey to Germany, Italy, and Switzerland.

1852-53

Two collections of stories.

1854

Journey to Germany and Italy.

1855

Journey to Germany and Switzerland. Meets Richard Wagner in Zurich. The Fairy Tale of My Life.

1856

Journey to Germany.

1857

Journey to England as the guest of Charles Dickens. To Be, or Not To Be?

1858-72

Eleven collections of tales and stories.

1859

Receives the Maximilian Order of Art and Science from King Maximilian II of Bavaria.

1860

Journey to Germany and Switzerland.

1861

Journey to Italy. Meets Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Rome.

1862-63

Journey to Switzerland, Spain, Morocco, and France.

1865

Meets Edvard Grieg. Journey to Sweden. Invitation from King Karl XV.

1866

Journey to Portugal via Amsterdam and Paris.

1867

Two visits to the World Exhibition in Paris. Made honorary citizen of Odense on December 6.

1868

Meets Johannes Brahms in Copenhagen. Journey to Holland, France Switzerland, and Germany.

1869-70

Journey to Vienna and the Riviera.

1870

Lucky Peer; Andersen’s last novel. Meets Henrik Ibsen.

1871

Journey to Norway.

1872

Journey to Germany, Austria, and Italy.

1873

Journey to Switzerland; Andersen’s last journey abroad.

1875

Andersen dies on August 4 at Rolighed by Copenhagen; funeral held at the cathedral of Copenhagen on August 11.

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