Jensen excluded these works from his oeuvre. Jensen also published romantic potboilers and a series ofĭetective novels which appeared under the pen name Ivar Lykke betweenġ8 in Revuen, a weekly periodical. Up his plans for a medical career and devoted himself to writing. (1898), Jensen visited the United States. Physics, and chemistry, deeply influenced his literary work.īetween the novels Danes (1896) and Einar Elkjær Studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, Married Else Marie Ulrik they had three sons. Medicine at the University of Copenhagen from 1893 to 1898. The Cathedral School of Viborg in 1893, and subsequently studied

He developed a fasciation for Darwinism, whichīecame the cornerstone of his thinking. Jensen graduated from Veterinary surgeon, Hans Jensen, a descendant on both sides of farmersĪnd craftsmen, and Marie (Kirstine) Jensen. Johannes Vilhelm Jensen was born in the small village of Farsø, His major works include Kongen's fald (1900-01, The Fall of the King), one of the most significant historical novels in Danish literature, and Den lange rejse (1908-22, The Long Journey), an evolutionary interpretation of the biblical legends. How human development is part of the natural process ofĮvolution. Jensen sought to depict through an idealized Darwinian theory On this list of significant Danish works of art, The Fall of the King was ranked alongside works by Hans Christian Andersen, Søren Kierkegaard, Karen Blixen and others.A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZĮssayist, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1944. The Fall of the King was named best Danish novel of the 20th century by the newspapers Politiken and Berlingske Tidende, independently of each other, in 1999 and was in 2006 included in the controversial Culture Canon published by the Ministry for Culture. The third and last part opens twelve years after, at the time of the Count's Feud in 1536, and ends at Mikkel's death. Takes place twenty years later, from the Stockholm Bloodbath in 1520 to the fall of the king in 1523.

Summary The Death of Spring ( Foraarets Død) īegins at around 1497 and ends with the defeat of the Danish army at Dithmarschen in 1500. It tells the story of Mikkel Thøgersen and the social entanglements which bring him into the service of king Christian II of Denmark. Jensen, published in three parts from 1900 to 1901. The Fall of the King ( Danish: Kongens Fald) is a novel by Danish author Johannes V. Cover of a 1906 Swedish version of the book

Kongens fald by Johannes V. Jensen