Wilhelm Hermann Jensen

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Wilhelm Hermann Jensen


Born
in Germany
February 15, 1837

Died
November 24, 1911

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Wilhelm Jensen was born at Heiligenhafen in the Duchy of Holstein (now Germany), the natural son of Swenn Hans Jensen (1795–1855), the Mayor of the city of Kiel, later administrator (Landvogt) of the German/Danish island of Sylt, who came of old patrician Frisian stock. Jensen was the son-in-law of the journalist and writer Johann August Moritz Bruehl (1819–1877), the father-in-law of the historian and editor Eduard Heyck, the grandfather of the writer and poet Hans Heyck and the step grandfather to psychologist Narziß Ach.
After attending the classical schools at Kiel and Lübeck, Jensen studied medicine at the universities of Kiel, Würzburg, Jena and Breslau. He, however, abandoned the medical profession for that of letters, and after engag
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“Der Himmel war vor dem Auge so weich, wie die Luft für das Gefühl.”
Wilhelm Jensen, Im Frühlingswald

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“No, I mean your name... Because “Bertgang” means the same as “Gradiva” and describes someone “who steps along brilliantly”
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