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Hans Christian Andersen
Sights

Rundetårn
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The exhibition
space here was once the
university library where
Andersen spent many
hours. His first fairy tale,
The Tinderbox (1835),
talks of a dog with eyes
“as big as a tower”
guarding a treasure.
Scholars believe this
refers to the Rundetårn,
which was originally built
as an observatory – a
literal eye to the sky
Hotel d’Angleterre, overlooking gardens (see pp18–19).
Vingårdsstræde 6
Hotel d’Angleterre
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Hans Christian Andersen
MAP K4
stayed here in November 1860, when Andersen lived here (then No 132)
he occupied two rooms at the corner for a year in 1827 in a spar tan garret
of Kongens Nytorv and Østergade room, preparing for his university
(Strøget), close to the Royal Theatre. exams. This is where he wrote the
He also stayed between August 1869 poem The Student. Once a museum,
and March 1870, and, finally, during the room is no longer open to visitors.
April and May 1871 (see p114). Bakkehusmuseet
Det Kongelige Teater
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The Bakkehus (House on the
Hill) was the home of prominent
Andersen arrived in the
city on 6 September 1819 as a literary patron Knud Lyne Rahbek
starstruck 14-year-old boy. It was and his wife, Kamma, from 1802 to
“my second birthday”, he recounts 1830. Andersen met the couple in
in his 1855 biog raphy, The Fairy Tale the early 1820s and their home soon
of My Life. Determined to become an became a meeting place for poets
actor, he went straight to the Royal and authors (see p89).
Theatre (see p23) in search of a job.
Although he was occasionally Bookshelves in Bakkehusmuseet
employed as an actor, his acting
talent never quite matched his skill
as a writer.
Lille Kongensgade 1
3
MAP K4
On 23 October 1866, Andersen
took a suite of rooms on the third
floor here, rented to him by a
photog rapher, Thora Hallager. It
was here that he bought furniture
for the first time in his life (at the
age of 61), as the apartment was
an unfurnished one.

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