Johannes Carsten Hauch

Johannes Carsten Hauch (born May 12, 1790, Fredrikshald [now Halden], Norway—died March 4, 1872, Rome, Italy) was a Danish poet, dramatist, and novelist whose works expressed his high moral seriousness and tragic outlook. As a student, Hauch was strongly attracted by the idealism and spiritual aspirations expressed by Romanticism; however, after such early literary attempts as Contrasterne, to dramatiske digte (1816; “The Contrasts: Two Dramatic Poems”), he turned to the natural sciences, particularly zoology. His...