About Henrik Ibson

The Author of A Doll's House was Henrik Ibsen. He was born in Skien, a tiny coastal town in the South of Norway. Ibsen and his family weren't wealthy or didn't have much money, as many people would say. His father, Knud Ibsen, was a merchant whose financial failure changed his families life. His father's friends broke all connections with him and his family moved to Venstop Farmhouse in disgrace.
When he was a child, Ibsen dreamed of becoming an artist. His mother, Marichen Cornelia Martine Altenburg, was a great painter. Iben's education was interrupted by poverty and at the age of 15 he was apprenticed to a pharmacist in Grimstad. Ibsen moved in 1850 to Christiania where he attended Heltsburg's student factory. It was an irregular school for university candidates. He earned from his journalistic writings.