Tidstavle over H.C. Andersens liv 1866-1844 1930 - 1938

Niels Larsen Stevns created this manuscript page titled "Tidstavle over H.C. Andersens liv 1866-1844" sometime between 1864 and 1941. It now resides in the Statens Museum for Kunst in Denmark. The text details events from the life of Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark's most famous author. The writing is dense, seemingly a chronological list of important events from the 1860s. We get a sense of Andersen's social world, seeing the places he lived and traveled. This document speaks to the institutionalization of Andersen as a national treasure. By Larsen Stevns's time, Andersen's legacy was already being carefully curated and preserved, a process that continues today through museums, literary societies, and academic study. To understand this work fully, a researcher would need to examine the original document, transcribe it, and compare it with other biographical sources on Andersen. Only then can we understand the decisions made in its creation and the social forces that shaped its meaning.