Chronology
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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