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Henrik Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright who lived from the 20th of March 1828 to the 23rd of May 1906. He is often referred to as the father of modern drama because he pioneered theatrical realism. By 2014 he was the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare.
Henrik Ibsen's major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll's House, Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, The Wild Duck, Rosmersholm, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder, and When We Dead Awaken. Critics frequently rate The Wild Duck and Rosmersholm as his best, while Ibsen himself regarded Emperor and Galilean as his masterpiece.
Henrik Ibsen was born on the 20th of March 1828 into an affluent merchant family in the port town of Skien in the county of Bratsberg, Telemark. His family belonged to the Paus family of Rising and Altenburg House, and scholar Ellen Rees describes them as the closest thing Norway had to an aristocracy.
Henrik Ibsen's later plays revealed disquieting realities behind respectable façades at a time when European theatre was expected to model strict morals of family life. Ghosts, published in 1881, depicted venereal disease poisoning a respectable family, which was considered intolerable. It took 20 years before the authorities allowed Ghosts to be performed in Norway.
Henrik Ibsen left Christiania in 1864 for Sorrento in Italy in self-imposed exile. He spent the next 27 years in Italy and Germany, primarily in Rome, Dresden, and Munich, before moving to Christiania, now Oslo, in 1891.
Henrik Ibsen died on the 23rd of May 1906 at 2:30 in the afternoon at his home at Arbins gade 1 in Kristiania, following a series of strokes that began in March 1900. His last words were "On the contrary." He was buried in Vår Frelsers gravlund in central Oslo.