Henrik Pontoppidan

Writer

1857-07-24

Quotes by Henrik Pontoppidan

• One of the middle ones in the flock, I was born on July 24, 1857, in the small Jutland town of Fredericia. In 1863, my father was transferred to Randers, another Jutland town, where a year later, at the age of six, I experienced the invasion of the allied Prussian and Austrian armies.

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