Report about hans christian andersen. Short biography for schoolchildren

(1805 - 1875)

Danish writer. Hans Christian Andersen was born on April 2, 1805 in the city of Odense on the island of Funen (in some sources the island is named Fionia), in the family of a shoemaker and a laundress. Andersen heard the first fairy tales from his father, who read him stories from "A Thousand and One Nights"; along with fairy tales, my father loved to sing songs and make toys. From his mother, who dreamed that Hans Christian would become a tailor, he learned how to cut and sew. As a child, the future storyteller often had to communicate with patients of the hospital for the mentally ill, in which his maternal grandmother worked. The boy listened with enthusiasm to their stories and later wrote that he was "made the writer of the father's song and the speech of the mad." Andersen began writing small plays as a child: the first play for his own "puppet theater", which consisted of a box for a performance made by his father, and wooden puppets, which Hans Christian sewed costumes, he composed for three months. The first attempt to educate their son was unsuccessful: his parents sent him to study with the glover's widow, but after the first flogging, Hans Christian took his primer and proudly left. He learned to read and write only by the age of 10. At the age of 12, Andersen was sent as an apprentice to a cloth factory, and then to a tobacco factory, since after the death of his father, the family could barely make ends meet. Soon, the mind accidentally had a chance to perform on the stage of a real theater. A theater troupe came from Copenhagen. An extra was needed for the performance, and Hans Christian was given the wordless role of the coachman. From that moment on, the boy decided that the theater was his vocation.

In 1819, having earned some money and bought the first boots, Hans Christian Andersen traveled to Copenhagen. Patrons appeared, thanks to whom he could study literature, Danish, German and Latin, and attended lessons at a ballet school. After one of the capital's actors said that Andersen would not be an actor, he had to part with the dream of a stage. Desperate and starving, Hans Christian decides to write a play. After the publication of the first act of The Robbers in Wissenberg in the newspaper Arfa, he receives his first literary royalties. His works attracted the attention of the director of the capital's theater J. Kollin, thanks to whom Andersen received a royal scholarship and went to Slagels in 1822. In Slagels, the seventeen-year-old writer was enrolled in the second grade of a Latin gymnasium. In 1826-1827, Andersen's first poems ("Evening", "Dying Child") were published, which received positive reviews from critics.

In 1828, Hans Christian Andersen entered the University of Copenhagen and, upon graduation, passed two exams for the title of Ph.D. in philosophy. In 1831, Andersen went on his first trip to Germany. In 1833, he presented King Frederick with a cycle of poems about Denmark, as a reward for which he received a small allowance for traveling around Europe, thanks to which he visited Paris, London, Rome, Florence, Naples, Venice. In France he met Heinrich Heine, Victor Hugo, Honore de Balzac, Alexander Dumas, in England - with Charles Dickens, in Italy - with the sculptor Thorvaldsen. He lived very poorly, so literary earnings were the only source of income, and works were not immediately accepted; critics pointed to spelling errors, were dissatisfied with the unusual style, the use of elements of the spoken language, said that his tales were not interesting to either adults or children. The heyday of creativity Hans Christian Andersen fell on the second half of the 1830-1840s; during this period, most of the fairy tales were written, which later brought him worldwide fame.

Hans Christian Andersen has lived all his life as a bachelor, never waiting for the long-awaited "consonance of souls". The last was the love for the famous opera singer Jenny Lind, who came to Copenhagen in the fall of 1843.

Two months before his death, in one of the English newspapers, the writer learned that his fairy tales are among the most read in the whole world. Hans Christian Andersen died on 4 August 1875 in Copenhagen.

The heroine of Andersen's fairy tale "The Little Mermaid", to whom a monument is erected in Copenhagen, has become a symbol of the capital of Denmark. Since 1967, by decision of the International Board for Children's Books (IBBU), on April 2, the birthday of the great storyteller Hans Christian Andersen, International Children's Book Day (ICBD) is celebrated. In connection with the 200th anniversary of the birth, 2005 was declared by UNESCO as the Year of Andersen.

Bibliography
Works by Hans Christian Andersen

Among the works of Hans Christian Andersen are novels, stories, plays, short stories, short stories, philosophical essays, essays, poems, more than 400 fairy tales. The poems were set to music: the romances were written by Schumann and Mendelssohn. In Russia, Andersen's tales were first published in 1844 ("The Bronze Boar"), in 1894-1895 the first collected works of Andersen were published in 4 volumes.

• The Robbers at Wissenberg (1819; tragedy)
• Alfsol (1819; tragedy)
• "Evening" (1826; poem)
• The Dying Child (1826; poem)
• "Travel on foot from the Holmen Canal to the eastern promontory of Amager Island" (1829; first prose)
• Love on the Nicholas Tower (1829; vaudeville)
• Shadow Pictures (1831; essay written after a trip to Germany)
• Agneta and the Water One (1834)
• The Improviser (1835, Russian translation - 1844; novel)
• Only the Violinist (1837; novel)
• "Tales told for children" (Everi, fortalte for born; 1835-1837; collection of fairy tales; in May and December 1835 - the first two collections, in April 1837 - the third collection)
• The Steadfast Tin Soldier (1838; fairy tale)
• "Book of Pictures without Pictures" (1840; collection of short stories)
• Mulatto (1840; play against racial inequality)
• "Poet's Bazaar" (1842; collection of travel sketches - the first version of his autobiography)
• "Nightingale" (1843; fairy tale)
• The Ugly Duckling (1843; tale)
• The Snow Queen (1844; fairy tale)
• "Girl with matches" (1845; fairy tale)
• "The Tale of My Life" (Mit livs eventir; 1846, Russian translation - in 1851, 1889; autobiography)
• "Shadow" (1847; fairy tale)
• "Mother" (1848; fairy tale)
• "Two Baroness" (1849; novel in 3 volumes)
• To Be or Not to Be (1857; novel)
• "Firstborn" (comedy)
• "More expensive than pearls and gold" (fairy tale play)
• "Mother of Elder" (fairy tale play)
• "Ole Lukkoye" (fairy tale play)

G.K. Andersen is a famous Danish storyteller, whose works are familiar to adults and children all over the world. He was born on April 2, 1805 in the family of a poor shoemaker and a laundress. The father did not look for a soul in his son. He read fairy tales to the boy, walked and played with him, made toys for him himself, and once even made a home puppet theater.

When Hans was only 11 years old, his father died. The guy attended school occasionally, because he had to earn extra money. He was first an apprentice of a weaver, then a tailor. Then he worked for some time in a factory that produced cigarettes.

Andersen was very fond of theater, so in 1819, dreaming of learning acting and becoming famous, he moved to Copenhagen. Thanks to a good soprano, he was accepted into the Royal Theater, but only minor roles were entrusted. Soon he fired the young man, because his voice began to break. Attempts to become a ballet dancer were unsuccessful. The first steps in the literary field also ended in failure.

Fate smiled at Andersen after he met Jonas Collin, who discerned great creative inclinations in the young man and pleaded before the king about the appointment of a scholarship to get an education in a gymnasium. In 1827, Hans started homeschooling. A year later he entered the University of Copenhagen.

He managed to combine studies at the university with the activities of a screenwriter and prose writer. The fees received gave Andersen the opportunity to travel to Germany. Then the writer traveled abroad 29 times. During his travels, he met many outstanding people, and made friends with some of them.

In 1835 his novel "The Improviser" and a collection of 4 fairy tales were published. G.K. Andersen is becoming popular. Later he published several more novels, plays and many works of other literary genres. But the main thing in the creative heritage of the outstanding writer is fairy tales. During his life, he created 212 of them.

In 1867, Andersen received the rank of state councilor and the title of honorary citizen of his hometown of Odense.

In 1872, he fell out of bed and was badly injured. The writer died on August 4, 1875 (cause of death - liver cancer). On the day of his funeral, all of Denmark was in mourning.

Biography 2

The life of the great Danish writer was amazingly interesting. Before becoming a famous and wealthy person, he had to experience a lot of grief.

Andersen was born in 1805 in the city of Odense in the family of a shoemaker. He spent his childhood in a small, modest closet. The boy grew up as an only and spoiled child. His father devoted all his free time to Hans and his wife, reading La Fontaine's fables and Gulberg's comedies to them in the evenings. The boy had many toys that the head of the family made. Christian learned to read at a school run by an elderly woman. Then his mother sent him to a boys' school, where he continued his studies. When Andersen was 12 years old, he had to work in a cloth factory. There he could study only in the evening at an educational institution for the poor. However, this did not stop the boy from trying. He especially loved reading and listening to fairy tales.

On September 6, 1819, Andersen arrives in Copenhagen, where he meets the director of the Royal Conservatory of Sibboni. He begins to sing with him, and Sibboni says that he can make a great career. However, Andersen's voice is lost, and he has to live in poverty again, moonlighting in a carpentry workshop. Soon he gets a job at the theater, where he is noticed by the choirmaster Crossing. Hans wholeheartedly began to devote himself to theatrical creativity and even skipped free evening lessons.

In 1822 he was fired from the choir and ballet school, and again no one needed him. Then Andersen decided to write a play that would be staged in the theater. And he creates the tragedy "Alfsol". And then one of the representatives of the creative circle Gutfeld recommended his work to the theater management. And although his work was not performed on stage, the management headed by Jonas Kollin began to petition for his admission to some school. Colleen helped him study for free at the gymnasium. Then he continues his studies at the University of Copenhagen. Andersen travels a lot in Europe, where he meets Hugo, Dumas and other famous writers of that era.

From 1835 to 1841, collections of the writer appeared under the title "Tales Told for Children." In his fairy tales, he wrote only the truth, which the boy told from the work about the naked king. Andersen became the first kind counselor for all children. And, of course, adults did not stand aside, since they once had the same childhood. In the writer's tales, a lot of wisdom and valuable advice are presented that are so needed in life. And although he became such a famous writer, in his personal life he remained a lonely person. Andersen died in 1875 all alone.

Hans Christian Andersen was born on April 2, 1805 in the city of Odense on the island of Funen (in some sources the island is named Fionia), in the family of a shoemaker and a laundress. Andersen heard the first fairy tales from his father, who read him stories from "A Thousand and One Nights"; along with fairy tales, my father loved to sing songs and make toys. From his mother, who dreamed that Hans Christian would become a tailor, he learned how to cut and sew. As a child, the future storyteller often had to communicate with patients of the hospital for the mentally ill, in which his maternal grandmother worked. The boy listened with enthusiasm to their stories and later wrote that he was "made the writer of the song of his father and the speech of the mad." From childhood, the future writer showed a penchant for dreaming and composing, often staging impromptu home performances.

In 1816, Andersen's father died, and the boy had to work for food. He was apprentice first to a weaver, then to a tailor. Andersen later worked in a cigarette factory.

In 1819, having earned some money and bought the first boots, Hans Christian Andersen traveled to Copenhagen. The first three years in Copenhagen, Andersen connects his life with the theater: he makes an attempt to become an actor, writes tragedies and dramas. In 1822 the play "The Sun of the Elves" was published. The drama turned out to be an immature, weak work, but attracted the attention of the theater management, with which at that time the aspiring author was collaborating. The board of directors secured a scholarship for Andersen and the right to study at a gymnasium free of charge. A seventeen-year-old boy enters the second grade of the Latin school and, despite the ridicule of his comrades, finishes it.

In 1826-1827, Andersen's first poems ("Evening", "Dying Child") were published, which received positive reviews from critics. In 1829, his story was published in a fantastic style, "A Walking Journey from the Holmen Canal to the Eastern End of Amager." In 1835, Andersen was brought to fame for "Fairy Tales". In 1839 and 1845, respectively, the second and third books of fairy tales were written.

In the second half of the 1840s and in the following years, Andersen continued to publish novels and plays, trying in vain to become famous as a playwright and novelist. At the same time, he despised his tales, which brought him well-deserved fame. Nevertheless, he continued to write more and more. The last tale was written by Andersen on Christmas Day 1872.

In 1872, the writer suffered serious injuries as a result of a fall, from which he was treated for three years. In 1875, on August 4, Hans Christian Andersen died. He was buried in Copenhagen at the Assistance cemetery.

• Andersen got angry when he was called a children's storyteller and said that he wrote fairy tales for both children and adults. For the same reason, he ordered that all children's figures be removed from his monument, where the storyteller was originally supposed to be surrounded by children.
• Andersen had an autograph of A.S. Pushkin.
• The tale of G. H. Andersen "The King's New Dress" was placed in the first ABC book by Leo Tolstoy.
• Andersen has a tale about Isaac Newton.
• In the fairy tale "Two Brothers" G. H. Andersen wrote about the famous brothers Hans Christian and Anders Oersted.
• The name of the tale "Ole-Lukkoye" is translated as "Ole-Close your eyes."
• Andersen paid very little attention to his appearance. He constantly walked the streets of Copenhagen in an old hat and a shabby raincoat. Once on the street, he was stopped by a dandy and asked:
  "Tell me, is this pathetic thing on your head called a hat?"
  To which there was an immediate response:
  "Is this pathetic thing under your fancy hat called a head?"

Be like children

The famous Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen was born on a fine spring day on April 2, 1805 in Odnes, which is located on the island of Funen. Andersen's parents were not rich. Father Hans Andersen was a shoemaker, and mother Anna Marie Andersdatter worked as a laundress, and was also not from a noble family. Since childhood, she was in poverty, begging for alms on the street, and after her death she was buried in the cemetery for the poor.

Nevertheless, in Denmark there is a legend that Andersen had a royal origin, because in his early biography he repeatedly mentioned that in childhood he had to play with the Danish prince Frits himself, who eventually became King Federic VII ...

According to Andersen's fantasy, their friendship with Prince Frits continued throughout their lives until Frits' death. After the death of the monarch, only relatives and he was admitted to the tomb of the late king ...

And the origin of such fantasy thoughts in Andersen, the stories of his father, as if he was a kind of relative of the king himself. From early childhood, the future writer showed a great inclination for daydreaming and an exuberant imagination. He made improvised home plays in the house more than once, acted out various scenes that caused laughter and mockery from his peers.

1816 was a difficult year for young Anders, his father died and he himself had to earn his own living. He began his working life as an apprentice for a weaver, after which he worked as an assistant to a tailor. The boy's labor activity continued at the cigarette factory ...

From early childhood, the boy with big blue eyes had a rather reserved character, he always liked to sit somewhere in the corner and play puppet theater (his favorite game). He carried his love for puppet theater in his soul throughout his life ...

From early childhood, Andersen was distinguished by emotionality, irascibility and over-measured sensitivity, which led to physical punishment in schools of that time. Such reasons forced the boy's mother to send him to a Jewish school, where all kinds of executions were not practiced.

Therefore, Andersen forever retained a connection with the Jewish people, knew its traditions and culture very well. He even wrote several fairy tales and stories on Jewish themes. But, unfortunately, they were not translated into Russian.

Youth

Already at the age of 14, the boy went to the capital of Denmark, Copenhagen. Letting him go so far, his mother really hoped that he would soon return back. Leaving his home, the boy made a kind of sensational statement, he said: "I'm going there to become famous!" He also wanted to find a job. She should be to his liking, that is, work in the theater, which he liked so much, and which he loved very much.

He received funds for the trip on the recommendation of a man in whose house he had more than once staged impromptu performances. The first year of his life in Copenhagen did not advance the boy to the dream of working in the theater. He somehow came to the house of a famous (at that time) singer and in moved feelings began to ask her to help him get a job in the theater. To get rid of the strange and awkward teenager, the lady promised to help him. But she never fulfilled this promise. Many years later, she somehow confesses to him that at that moment she mistook him for a man whose mind was clouded ...

In those years, Hans Christian himself was a lanky, awkward teenager with a long nose and slender limbs. In fact, he was the counterpart of the Ugly Duckling. But he had a pleasant voice, with which he expressed his requests, and either because of that, or simply out of pity, Hans was nevertheless accepted into the bosom of the Royal Theater, despite all his external shortcomings. Unfortunately, he was given supporting roles. He did not achieve success in the theater, and with a break in his voice (age) he was soon fired altogether ...

But Andersen at that time was already composing a play, which had five acts. He wrote a letter of intercession to the king, in which he convincingly asked the monarch to give money for the publication of his work. The book also included the writer's poems. Hans did everything to buy the book, that is, he held promotions in the newspaper, announcing the publication, but the expected sales did not follow. But he did not want to give up and took his book to the theater, hoping to stage a play based on his play. But here, too, failure awaited him. He was refused, explaining the refusal by the complete lack of professional experience of the author ...

However, he was given a chance and offered to study. Because he had a very strong desire to prove himself extraordinary ...

People who sympathized with the poor teenager sent a request to the king of Denmark himself, in which they asked to allow the teenager to study. And "His Majesty" heeded the requests, allowing Hans to go to school, first in the city of Slagels, and then in the city of Elsinore, and at the expense of the state treasury ...

This turn of events, incidentally, suited a talented teenager, because now he did not need to think about how to earn a living. But science at school was not easy for Andersen, firstly, he was much older than the students with whom he studied, and felt some discomfort about this. Also, he was constantly subjected to merciless criticism from the rector of the educational institution, about which he was too worried .... Very often he saw this man in his nightmares. Then he will say about the years spent within the walls of the school, that it was the darkest time in his life ...

After completing his studies in 1827, he was never able to master the spelling, and until the end of his life he made grammatical mistakes in writing ...

In his personal life, he was also unlucky, he was never married and did not have children of his own ...

Creation

The first success brought the writer a fantastic story entitled "Walking journey from the Holmen Canal to the eastern tip of Amager", which was published in 1833. For this work, the writer received a reward (from the king), which allowed him to make the trip abroad, which he so dreamed of ...

This fact became an impromptu launching pad for Anderson and he began to write many different literary works (including the famous "Fairy Tales", which made him famous). Once again the writer makes an attempt to find himself on the stage in 1840, but the second attempt, like the first, does not bring him complete satisfaction ...

But on the other hand, in the writing field, he has some success, having published his collection entitled "A book with pictures without pictures." Also had a continuation and "Fairy Tales", which in 1838 came out in the second edition, and in 1845 appeared "Fairy Tales - 3" ...

He becomes a famous writer, moreover, famous not only in his own country, but also in European countries. In the summer of 1847, he was able to visit England for the first time, where he was greeted triumphantly ...

He continues to try to write plays, novels, trying to become famous as a playwright and novelist. At the same time, he hates his fairy tales, which brought him true fame. But nevertheless, tales from his pen appear over and over again. The last tale that he wrote appeared during the Christmas period of 1872. In the same year, through negligence, the writer fell out of bed and was severely injured. He never managed to recover from the injuries sustained during the fall (although he lived after the fall for three more years). The famous storyteller died in the summer of 1875 on August 4. He was buried in the Assistens cemetery in Copenhagen ...

The biography of Hans Christian Andersen is the topic of this article. The years of the life of this great writer are 1805-1875. Hans was born in Odense, a Danish city located on the island of Funen. Photo by Andersen Hans Christian is presented below.

His father was a shoemaker and a dreamer, most of all he loved to make various toys. He was in poor health and died when Hans was 9 years old. Maria, the boy's mother, worked as a laundress. The need that arose after the death of her husband forced this woman to give her son to a cloth factory as a worker, and then to a tobacco factory, but here he mainly entertained the workers with singing, and also played scenes from Golberg and Shakespeare.

First appearance on stage

Hans Christian read a lot as a teenager, put up posters and was interested in theater. In Odense in the summer of 1918, actors from the city of Copenhagen toured. Everyone was invited for the mass scenes. So Andersen got on stage. His diligence was noted, which caused the boy incredible dreams and great hopes.

The photo below shows the house in Odense, where the future writer lived in childhood.

Andersen sets out to conquer Copenhagen, patronage of Siboney

The biography of Hans Christian Andersen continued in Copenhagen. The 14-year-old theater-goer decided to go here and appear before the ballerina Schall, the prima of the local theater. He sang and danced in front of her. Prima thought it was a crazy vagabond. The visit to the director also gave nothing. He found Andersen too thin and deprived of the appearance necessary for the actor (already here the tale "The Ugly Duckling", written by him in the future, was outlined). Then Hans went to the singer Siboney, whom he managed to subdue with his singing. A subscription was organized in favor of Andersen. Siboney began to give him singing and music lessons. However, Andersen lost his voice six months later, and the singer invited him to return home.

New patrons and first debut

Hans had incredible tenacity. He was able to find new patrons - the poet Guldberg, whose brother he knew from Odens, and the dancer Dalen. The latter taught the boy to dance, and the poet taught German and Danish. Hans Christian soon made his debut on the stage of the local royal theater, in the ballet "Armida", playing the minor role of the 7th troll, of which there were only 8. He also sometimes sang in the choir of warriors and shepherds.

Hans, making friends with the librarian, began to spend most of his time among books, and also began to write poetry himself (decorating them without much hesitation with stanzas from famous poets), after which - tragedies ("Alfsol", "Robbers in Wissenberg"). The poet Guldberg became its first editor and reader.

Studying at the Latin school and at the university, the first works

The theater management eventually managed to secure a royal scholarship for an aspiring playwright. He also received the right to study for free in a Latin school, where he spent 5 years. In 1828, Andersel passed the entrance examinations to the University of Copenhagen. He was by this time the author of two poems that he managed to publish - "The Dying Child" and "Evening".

From under his pen a year later appears the work "Traveling on foot ...", full of humor and fantasy. At the same time, Andersen's vaudeville "Love on the Nicholas Tower" was staged on the stage of the Copenhagen Theater. The audience greeted this performance with good will. Andersen in 1830 publishes a collection of poetry, which included the fairy tale "The Dead Man" as an appendix.

The first love

At the same time, the writer Hans Christian Andersen falls in love. The sister of one of his college buddies is causing Andersen's sleepless nights. This girl came from a burgher family with moderate ideals, in which wealth was valued above all else. The parents did not like the beggar writer at all. Moreover, his mother was in the poorhouse. The fact is that after the death of her second husband, Mary gave in. She started drinking and the neighbors decided to put the woman in a charity home.

Travel in Germany and the creative crisis

Andersen's beloved refused him, preferring the son of a pharmacist. In order to cure Hans of love, Colleen, his wealthy patron, sent him on a trip to Germany. Andersen brought from there the book "Shadow Pictures" (year of creation - 1831), which he wrote under the influence of Heine's "Travel Pictures". In this work of Hans, still timidly, but already fabulous motives began to sound.

We will continue to describe the life and work of Hans Christian Andersen. Lack of money and a creative crisis forced him to start composing a libretto based on the works of W. Scott, which critics did not like very much. Increasingly, he was reminded that he was the son of a shoemaker and that he should not be carried over. Andersen finally managed to present the King of Denmark with his second book of poetry "Fantasies and Sketches". He accompanied his gift with a request for travel allowance. The request was granted, and the writer went to Italy and France in 1833. During this trip, his mother died in the poorhouse. Her eyes were closed by other people's hands.

Meeting with Heine

Andersen in Paris met with Heine, his idol. Acquaintance, however, was limited to a few walks along the boulevards of Paris. Andersen admired this man as a poet, but was wary of him as an atheist and free-thinker. In Paris, Hans began to write the drama in verse "Agneta and the Waterman", completed in Italy.

The novel "The Improviser"

Italy served as the scene for the 1935 novel The Improviser. It was translated in 1844 in Russia, received a review by V. Belinsky himself. True, only the Italian landscapes, brilliantly painted by Andersen, were praised. The Russian critic, one might say, saw through the main character, not suspecting how biographical he is. After all, not an "enthusiastic Italian", but Hans Christian himself suffered from dependence on patrons, and it was he who parted "by misunderstanding" with his first beloved.

Second love

With the second girl who touched Andersen's heart, the daughter of Collin, his patron, nothing came of it except brotherly love. Colleen himself patronized him willingly, but did not at all want to get the poet as his son-in-law. After all, Hans Christian Andersen, whose work and position were of interest only to connoisseurs of art, was a man with a very unstable future. Therefore, a caring father chose a lawyer for his daughter.

Last attempt to marry

Another woman, whom the Italian poet from the work "The Improviser" decided to marry, also appeared in the fate of its author. This is Jenny Lind, the singer who was called "The Swedish Nightingale". They met in 1843, in which the fairy tale "The Nightingale" was born.

This acquaintance took place during the singer's tour in Denmark. The word "love" again flashed in Andersen's diary, but the matter did not come to oral explanations. At a farewell banquet, Jenny made a toast in honor of the writer, inviting him to become her "brother." This ended his attempts to marry Hans Christian Andersen, whose work and biography are of interest to us. Apparently, he feared that Madonna would punish him for the "secular path of life." Unfortunately, the personal life of Hans Christian Andersen did not work out.

First tales

Another novel came out after The Improviser - Only a Violinist (in 1837). Between the two novels, 2 issues of "Tales Told to Children" appeared. No one paid attention at that time to these works, which were created by Hans Christian Andersen. A biography for children and adults of the writer we are interested in, however, should not miss this important point. Soon the third issue was born. The collections include fairy tales that have become classics: "The Little Mermaid", "The Princess and the Pea", "Flame", "The King's New Dress" and others.

Creative flourishing

At the end of the 30s, as well as the 40s, Andersen's creative heyday fell. Such masterpieces as "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" (written in 1838), "The Ugly Duckling" and "Nightingale" (in 1843), "The Snow Queen" (in 1844), in the next - "Girl with matches", appeared. then - "Shadow" (1847) and others.

Andersen at this time again visited Paris (in 1843), where he met again with Heine. He greeted him already as an equal, was delighted with Andersen's tales. Hans became a European celebrity. Since then, he began to call collections of his works "New Fairy Tales", thereby emphasizing that they are addressed to both children and adults.

In 1846, Hans Christian Andersen wrote an autobiography entitled "The Tale of My Life". The biography for children and adults is written sincerely and frankly. Andersen very touchingly told about himself in the third person, as if creating another fairy tale. Indeed, fame came to this writer in a fabulous unforeseen way.

Two interesting episodes from the life of Andersen

The biography of Hans Christian Andersen is marked by one amusing incident. It happened in 1847 while Hans was traveling to England. The writer, having examined the ancient castle, decided to leave his autograph in the visitors' book. Suddenly the gatekeeper turned to his companion, an important elderly banker, believing that it was Andersen. Learning that he was mistaken, the gatekeeper exclaimed: "So young? And I thought that writers only become famous in old age."

England gave another pleasant meeting to the Danish storyteller. Here he met Dickens, the author of "The Cricket on the Stove" and "Oliver Twist", whom he loved very much. It turned out that Dickens loved the tales and stories of Hans Christian Andersen. Since the writers did not know each other's languages, they expressed themselves with gestures. Dickens, touched in goodbye, waved his handkerchief to Andersen from the pier for a long time.

Completion of life's journey

Last of all, as is often the case, recognition came to this writer at home. The sculptor showed him the project: Andersen covered with children from all sides. However, Hans said that his fairy tales are addressed to adults, not just children. The project was redone.

Photo of Andersen Hans Christian, dated July 1860, is shown below.

In 1875, on August 4, several months after the anniversary celebrations, the great storyteller passed away in a dream. This event ended the biography of Hans Christian Andersen. However, his tales and his memory continue to live to this day.