Mogens And Other Stories (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Mogens: And Other Stories Jens Peter Jacobsen was born in the little town of Thisted in Jutland, on April 7, 1847. In 1868 he matriculated at the University of Copenhagen, where be displayed a remarkable talent for science, winning the gold medal of the university with a dissertation on Seaweeds. Lle definitely chose science as a career, and was among the first in Scandinavia to recognize the importance of Darwin. Lie translated the Origin of Species and Descent of Man into Danish. In 1872 while collecting plants he con tracted tuberculosis, and as a consequence, was compelled to give up his scientific career. This was not as great a sacrifice, as it may seem, for he had long been undecided whether to choose science or literature as his life work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.