Christine Daugaard | |
|---|---|
 Christine in 1900, by Carl Thomsen, now in a collection at Ribe Kunstmuseum | |
| Born | 30 January 1831 |
| Died | 18 December 1917 (aged 86) |
| Nationality | Danish |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, poet, translator |
Christine Margaretha Daugaard (30 January 1831 in Thorstrup by Varde – 18 December 1917 in Ribe[1][2]) was a Danish writer and poet, daughter of bishop Jacob Brøgger Daugaard.
Biography
[edit]Christine Daugaard was born in Denmark to bishop Jacob Brøgger Daugaard. She was brought up in a happy home. Christine Daugaard loved the Jutland Hede. In 1845 her father became diocesan provost and in 1850 bishop in Ribe, and Christine now spent some years in Ribe.[1] Her father nurtured a keen sense of history, and which Christine had inherited a historical interest from him. After the bishop's death in 1867, she moved with her mother to Copenhagen,[3] where they lived for about a dozen years in a villa on H. C. Ørsteds Vej. Christine had befriended faithful friend early on in the Miss Sophie Holst, a Jewish priest's daughter who was accepted as a dear daughter in the Bishop's House. He accompanied her to Copenhagen and after the Bishop's death again with her friend to Jutland (1861), first to the Herregaarden Nørholm by Varde, where they lived for a time, at the suggestion of Miss Rosenørn-Teilmann, and then again to Ribe, where she died in 1917.[1]
Belonging to a gifted and literary family, she appeared in the 1850s-60s, partly under the pseudonym Erica,[2] with several spirituale and fatherlands historicale poems (among others Heather Flowers 1856, Historical Poems 1861, Danmarks Fadervor 1864, Spiritual Poems 1865, The Guardian 1870). She also published 1884 an abridged translation of Torquato Tasso's Liberated Jerusalem.[2][1]
Christine died in 1917 aged 86.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Anderson, Anton (2012). "Danske Forfatterinder i det nittende Hundredaar" (in Danish). Retrieved 22 August 2024.
- ^ a b c Ripenser-bladet, No. 8, May 1918
- ^ Bricka, Carl (2023). "Dansk biografisk Lexikon" (in Danish). Retrieved 22 August 2024.
