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THOMSEN, GRIMUR (182o-1896)

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 871 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: THE-TOO
THOMSEN, GRIMUR (182o-1896) , Icelandic poet and man of letters, was born in 182o. He came in 1837 to the university of
Copenhagen
 , where he first studied law and philology, but later, philosophy and aesthetics. He became an enthusiastic follower of the Pan-Scandinavian
movement
 , although this was not generally favoured by his countrymen. After some years of foreign travel, in 1848 he entered the Danish diplomatic service, and remained in it till 1851, when he returned to
Copenhagen
 , where he became the
chief
  of one of the departments of the Danish foreign office. He retired in 1866, and then went back to Iceland, where he passed the rest of his
life
 , active in the politics and the literature of his native
island
 . He died in 1896. He is the best ballad poet Iceland has produced. His poems are unaffected and mostly free from rhetoric, the besetting sin of Icelandic poets. His subjects are principally taken from Icelandic or Scandinavian history and mythology. He is very unlike most of his contemporaries, both in style and thought: he is Icelandic to the core, and on that account is perhaps the modern Icelandic poet most appreciated by foreigners Besides his poems (two
separate
  collections, Reykjavik, 188o, and Copenhagen, 1895), he is the author of numerous
critical
  and historical essays in Icelandic and Danish, and some larger works in Danish, of which his dissertation on Lord Byron (Copenhagen, 1845) deserves to be mentioned. Grimur Thomsen was a warm admirer of Greek literature, and translated a
great
  number of poems from that language into Icelandic. (S. BL.)


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