The New International Encyclopædia/Pontoppidan, Henrik

​PONTOPPIDAN, Henrik (1857–). A Danish novelist, born in Fredericia and educated at the University of Copenhagen. His first book, Stäkkede Vinger (1881), immediately gained for him a prominent position among the younger Danish writers and marked him as a broad and accurate observer of social and political conditions among the Danish peasantry. His earlier writing betrays imitation of the Norwegian novelist Kielland, but in Fra Hytterne (1887), Folkelivsskildringer (1888–90), and the trilogy Muld (1891), Det forjättede Land (1892), and Dommens Dag (1895), his originality and narrative power are strongly apparent. His other writings include Sandinge Menighel (1883) and Landsbybilleder (1884).

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