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Henrik Johan Ibsen was born on the 20th of March 1828 into an affluent merchant family in Skien. He lived at Rising outside Skien and later moved to Venstøp while his parents maintained their lifestyle despite some financial struggles.
At fifteen, Ibsen left school to become an apprentice pharmacist in Grimstad. He began writing plays there including Catilina published under the pseudonym Brynjolf Bjarme when he was twenty-two.
In 1864 Henrik Johan Ibsen left Christiania for Sorrento Italy where he lived for twenty-seven years mostly abroad. Moving from Rome to Dresden then Munich enabled him to write A Doll's House published in 1879.
Ghosts revealed how venereal disease could poison respectable families causing scandal throughout Europe when performed publicly. Each new play since 1879 had explosive effects on intellectual circles especially regarding moral values accepted within bourgeois households.
Henrik Ibsen expressed anarchist views stating state must be abolished according to letters written shortly before Paris Commune events unfolded across France. Works rejected religion impeding social reform evinced lifelong skepticism toward bourgeois respectability proving key figure influencing Japanese drama Shingeki movement established Kunio Yanagita founded Ipusen-kai society year marking birth modernity globally recognized internationally since then decades following initial publication each play translated widely into German French English languages spoken worldwide today including India where annual Delhi festivals celebrate his legacy annually starting eight hundred twenty-eight onwards.