Henri Nathansen

Henri Nathansen

Known for: Writing
Biography: 1868-07-17
Deathday: 1944-02-16 (75 years old)

Biography

Henri Nathansen (17 July 1868 – 16 February 1944) was a Danish writer and stage director, today best known for the play Indenfor Murene (the Danish rendering of the Latin expression intra muros, meaning "within the walls"). Nathansen grew up in a merchant family in Copenhagen. Abandoning a legal career, he turned to writing and later directing. His best known work, Indenfor Murene, premiered in 1912 at the Royal Danish Theatre, directed by the author. The play centers around a wealthy, loving, but conservative Jewish family whose only daughter breaks away from tradition by attending lectures at the university and secretly becoming engaged to her teacher, a gentile. Still frequently performed, the play was included in the official Canon of Danish Culture in 2006.

Nathansen's 1932 novel Mendel Philipsen & Søn, about a Jewish woman who falls in love with a gentile painter but instead enters into a loveless marriage with her Jewish cousin, was adapted for the 1992 movie Sofie.

Late in his career, Nathansen wrote a number of biographies, notably one of Georg Brandes (1929).

In October 1943, when the Nazis attempted to round up the Danish Jews, Nathansen fled to Sweden. Four months later, he killed himself.

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Known For
Writing

Gender
Male

Birthday
1868-07-17

Deathday
1944-02-16 (75 years old)

Birth Place
Hjørring, Denmark

Citizenships
Kingdom of Denmark

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