Knud Ibsen

Charitas, the ship captained by Knud's father when he died at sea in 1797
Rising, where Knud grew up
Stockmanngården in Skien, where Knud Ibsen lived with his brother Christopher from 1825. In the same year he married Marichen Altenburg, who moved in with them, and Henrik Ibsen was born there in 1828
The roof and one of the windows of Altenburggården can be seen in the middle of the picture. Altenburggården was Marichen Altenburg's childhood home. The Ibsen family lived there 1831–1836
Venstøp outside Skien, originally the Ibsen family's summer house, where they lived permanently 1836–1843. It was a reasonably large farm with large, representative buildings.

Knud Plesner Ibsen (3 October 1797, in Skien – 24 October 1877, in Skien) was a Norwegian merchant from the city of Skien and the father of the playwright Henrik Ibsen. He is widely considered the model for many central characters in his son's plays, including Jon Gynt in Peer Gynt and Old Ekdahl in The Wild Duck. Through the Paus family—the family of Knud's stepfather Ole Paus and Marichen's mother Hedevig—Knud was raised as a close relative of his would-be wife Marichen Altenburg, although they were not closely related biologically.[1][2]

  1. ^ Jon Nygaard, Jon (2013). «...af stort est du kommen»: Henrik Ibsen og Skien. Senter for Ibsen-studier. ISBN 9788291540122.
  2. ^ Jørgen Haave (2017). Familien Ibsen. Museumsforlaget/Telemark Museum. ISBN 9788283050455.