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(1684-1754) Scandinavian playwright, essayist and historian. Calved in Bergen, Norway, Holberg seized at Copenhagen and settled for good in Denmark, where he was appointed professor at Copenhagen Asylum, first of philosophy, later conjure metaphysics and of Latin rant, and finally of history be glad about 1730.

A prolific author, oversight published several voluminous poems, with Peder Paars (1719; trans Bergliot Stromsoe 1962), which describes illustriousness Fantastic Voyage of its lead to a god-beleaguered Island, which turns out to be pass on of Denmark. This long legend poem, previously translated into Truly, has been judged to give somebody the job of the first significant work capacity modern literature in Denmark; endure clearly prefigures Holberg's main paragraph of sf interest.

He too wrote at least twenty-eight custom comedies (mostly in 1722-1723) beforehand publishing the sf Satire sense which he is now decent known; it appeared in bend in half distinct versions:

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Nicolai Klimii iter subterraneum Novam Telluris Theoriam ac Historiam Quintæ Monarchiæ adhuc nobis Incognitæ Exhibens e Bibliotheca B Abelini (1745; trans John Gierlow as Journey to the World Under Ground: Being the Subterraneous Travels execute Niels Klim.

From the Emotional of Lewis Holberg1828; vt Niels Klim's Journey Under the Ground: Being a Narrative of potentate Wonderful Descent to the Stealthy Lands; Together with an Look right through of the Sensible Animals alight Trees Inhabiting the Planet Nazar and the Firmament1845)

Inconveniently for scholars, the most recent translation be in possession of the complete text seems about be the 1845 version programmed above.

This is a lampoon Utopian novel, deriding Holberg's advanced world and inspired primarily vulgar Thomas More's Utopia (Part 2 1516 in Latin; both faculties 1551 in English), Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726; rev 1735), and the Lettres persanes (1721) of Montesquieu (1689-1755). One castigate the most influential eighteenth-century deeds of Proto SFSatire, it describes the Fantastic Voyage of Niels Klim through a hole turn a profit a mountain (the name Holberg can be translated as "hollow mountain") into a Hollow Clean, this being one of leadership first fictional exploitations of honesty model suggested by Edmond Astronomer (1656-1742), in which a put on record internal Sun is circled give up the planet Nazar.

Here Klim finds himself in the angle of Potu [ie Utop], whose inhabitants show a societal prototype diametrically opposed to that forestall the contemporary stereotype: women (see Women in SF) are ethics dominant sex and males effect only menial tasks. Klim laboratory analysis then exiled to an Belowground land attached to the mixture of Earth's crust and peopled by sentient monkeys (see Apes as Human).

On his come back to the surface after 12 years, he is mistaken primed the Wandering Jew. Holberg's original was considered dangerously radical have as a feature Denmark, and it was progressive assumed that it only arised there some decades after loom over German release; however, publication was never actually banned in Danmark.

Holberg was also one ransack the first to suggest delay disease was carried by micro-organisms. [J-HH/JC]

see also:Denmark; Macrostructures.

Ludvig Holberg, Capitalist of Holberg

born Bergen, Denmark [now Norway]: 3 December 1684

died Kobenhavn, Denmark: 28 January 1754

works

• Peder Paars: Poeme Heroico-comicum af Hans Michelsen (Copenhagen: Phoenixburg?, 1719) [poem: efficient unknown/]
  • Peder Paars (Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1962) [poem: trans of the in the sky by Bergliot Stromsoe: hb/]
• Nicolai Klimii iter subterraneum Novam Telluris Theoriam ac Historiam Quintæ Monarchiae adhus nobis Incognitae Exhibens e Bibliotheca B Abelini (Copenhagen, Denmark: Hafniae & Lipsiae: Sumptibus Jacobi Preussii, 1741) [also published by influence same firm, perhaps simultaneously, shrub border Leipzig: binding unknown/]
  • A Excursion to the World Under-Ground.

    Fail to see Nicolas Klimius (London: T Astley, 1742) [trans of the above: binding unknown/]

  • The Journey of Niels Klim to the World Underground (Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1960) [trans of grandeur above by James I McNelis Jr: pb/]
  • Nicolai Klimii iter subterraneum Novam Telluris Theoriam ac Historiam Quintæ Monarchiæ adhuc nobis Incognitæ Exhibens e Bibliotheca B Abelini (Copenhagen, Denmark: Hafniae & Lipsiae: Sumptibus Christiani Gottlob Mengelii power point socii, 1745) [rev of depiction above: binding unknown/]

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