Ludvig Holberg
Knud Haakonssen, "Ludvig Holberg "
English | ISBN: 1472450701 | 2017 | 268 pages | PDF | 162 MB
English | ISBN: 1472450701 | 2017 | 268 pages | PDF | 162 MB
Ludvig Holberg (1684–1754) was the foremost representative of the Danish-Norwegian Enlightenment and also a European figure of note. He published significant works in natural law and history, but also a very important body of moral essays and epistles. He authored several engaging autobiographies and European travelogues, a major utopian novel that was an immediate European succes, interesting satires that advocated women’s education and career, and a large number of comedies. These comedies secured Holberg’s status as the most significant playwright in Scandinavia before Ibsen and Strindberg. Through his extensive
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