Quote of the day
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
Jens Peter Jacobsen
Born: April 7, 1847
Died: April 30, 1885 (aged 38)
Bio: Jens Peter Jacobsen was a Danish novelist, poet, and scientist, in Denmark often just written as "J. P. Jacobsen". He began the naturalist movement in Danish literature and was a part of the Modern Breakthrough.
Known for:
- Niels Lyhne (1880)
- Mogens and Other Stories
- Mogens og andre noveller (1882)