The Ibsen Family

Norwegian language book cover titled Familien Ibsen (2017)
Author	Jørgen Haave
Original title	Familien Ibsen
Publisher	Museumsforlaget
Publication date	2017
Publication place	Norway
ISBN	9788283050455

The Ibsen Family (Norwegian: Familien Ibsen) is a non-fiction book by Ibsen scholar Jørgen Haave about Henrik Ibsen's family and early life.

Background

It was published by Museumsforlaget and Telemark Museum in 2017. The book is based on a systematic, critical reassessment of the knowledge about Ibsen's childhood and family – that is, the closely intertwined Ibsen, Paus and Altenburg merchant family of Skien – which is placed in a broader context.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} In 2017, Haave was awarded second place in the Researcher's Association's "Hjernekraft" prize for his research on Ibsen. Ibsen scholar Ellen Rees notes that the book is a seminal work in what she describes as a "revolution" in recent historical and biographical research into Ibsen's life, that has refuted many myths previously taken for granted.^[6] Haave sees Ibsen's life trajectory in the context of the development of a modern and democratic constitutional state of Norway, and describes Ibsen as a boy who was pampered by his father, who liked to be creative in solitude, and who provoked peers with his superiority and arrogance.^[7]

References

External links

• Familien Ibsen (National Library of Norway; full access from Norwegian libraries)