Blicher, STEEN STEENSEN,

Blicher, STEEN STEENSEN, Danish poet and novelist, born 11th October 1782, at Vium, a village of Viborg; studied at Copenhagen, became in 1819 pastor at Thorning, and in 1826 at Spendrup, in Jutland. Here he died, 26th March 1848. He was long known only as the successful translator of Ossian (1807-9), but his Snekklokken (1826), and his Jydske Romanzer, which appeared in the monthly periodical Nordlyset, soon became widely popular. These, however, were eclipsed by Nationalnoveller, also published monthly, and noted by their remarkably sympathetic insight into the life of the people on the heaths of Jutland. Blicher's poems are thoughtful, tender, and eminently national. A humorous autobiography is prefixed to the collection of his Gamle og nye Noveller (7 vols. 1846-47).