Hans Egede Schack

Hans Egede Schack was born in 1820 in the parsonage of Sengeløse, the last of six children of a strict pastor who raised him harshly. The family settled in Christianshavn in 1833. A student in Copenhagen, he was in 1840 among those who founded an opposition student society that the police closed down, and devoted himself to Scandinavianism; admitted to the bar in 1844, he joined the Schleswig war in 1848, and sat in the constituent assembly and then in parliament from 1850 to 1853. He then left politics, married Fanny Hebbe, daughter of a Swedish woman of letters, and entered the civil service. He died in 1859.

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• NovelPhantasterneHans Egede Schack · 1857not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain