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The Connections of Henrik Ibsen

Norwegian playwright and theatre director (1828–1906) Every person recorded alongside Henrik Ibsen in the archive: family, teachers, students, influences, and the contemporaries who shared the same years.

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Family & Connections

People recorded alongside Henrik Ibsen in the ledgers of the archive.

Parents
Knud Ibsen, Marichen Altenburg
Spouses
Suzannah Ibsen
Children
Sigurd Ibsen, Hans Jacob Henriksen
Siblings
Hedvig Ibsen, Ole Paus Ibsen, Johan Andreas Altenburg Ibsen, Nicolai Alexander Ibsen, Johan Altenburg Ibsen
Influenced by
Soren Kierkegaard, Georg Brandes, Henrik Wergeland, Jens Peter Jacobsen
Influenced
Anton Chekhov, Arthur Miller, Henry James, George Bernard Shaw

Alive in the same years

Records in the archive whose lifetimes overlapped the years 1828 to 1906.