Few have ever read the works of Hans Christian Andersen. This storyteller is an extraordinary personality, and facts from Andersen's life confirm this. Many of the great stories of this writer appeared at night. Having got acquainted with interesting facts from the biography of Andersen, you will learn everything that the storyteller lived with.
1. Hans Christian Andersen was of great height and thinness.
2. The character of the writer was very nasty.
3. Among the female sex, Hans Christian Andersen was not successful.
4. Andersen had an autograph of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin.
5. The first work of Hans Christian Andersen was a fairy tale called "The tallow candle".
6. Until the end of his life, the storyteller kept the book with Pushkin's autograph, because it was his dream.
7. Today in the center of Copenhagen there is a monument to Andersen.
8. From childhood, Hans Christian Andersen believed that his father was a king.
9. Throughout his life, Hans Christian Andersen suffered from toothache.
10. Andersen had no children, but he often told other people's fairy tales.
11. The storyteller lived for 70 years.
12. Hans Christian Andersen asked the composer Hartmann to compose a march for his funeral.
13. The longest time for writing fairy tales Andersen wrote 2 days.
14. He traveled a lot.
15. Hans Christian Andersen was not handsome, but his smile proved otherwise.
16. The storyteller died all alone.
17. Hans Christian Andersen feared that he would be buried alive, so he told him to have his artery cut.
18. In Moscow there is a monument to Hans Christian Andersen.
19. Andersen had several strange phobias: he was afraid of dogs, as well as scratches on his body.
20. Andersen liked to wear a shabby cloak, and this was not due to his stinginess.
21. He is not used to spending money on unnecessary things.
22. The storyteller loved movement, and therefore over the years of his life he had to make about 29 great trips.
23. Andersen preferred to ride.
24. Many of his tales ended with an unhappy ending, because Hans Christian Andersen was not afraid to traumatize the psyche of children.
25. The only work that touched the soul of Hans Christian Andersen - "The Little Mermaid".
26. At 29, Andersen insisted that he was an innocent person.
27. Andersen composed fairy tales not only for children, but also for adults, and therefore it upset him when this man was called a children's storyteller.
28. Hans Christian Andersen has tales about Newton.
29. There are Hans Christian Andersen awards.
30. Andersen has never been married.
31. The Andersen family has always lived in poverty.
32. Hans Christian Andersen was an observant person. He could look at a person and talk about his life.
33. After Andersen's death, new tales were found in his desk drawer.
34. The storyteller created a work about his life with the title “The Tale of My Life”.
35. Andersen was happy throughout his life.
36. Father Hans Christian Andersen died when the boy was only 14 years old.
37. In love, Andersen was considered a "platonic lover".
38. By the end of Andersen's life, his fortune had grown to half a million dollars.
39. Hans Christian Andersen is the most famous writer in Denmark.
40. Hans Christian Andersen had a big dream. He wanted to be an actor.
41. The first works of Andersen were with grammatical errors.
42. Andersen managed to travel almost all of Europe.
43. Andersen first visited Copenhagen with the permission of his mother at the age of 14.
44. Hans Christian Andersen was considered an overly sensitive and emotional child.
45. Andersen published his first science fiction story in 1829.
46. Andersen liked writing since childhood.
47. Hans Christian Andersen, born in poverty, was able to become the "swan" of literature.
48. Hans Christian Andersen was the son of a laundress and a shoemaker.
49. All his life, Andersen rented apartments, because he did not have his own place.
50. As a teenager, Andersen had to hang posters.
51. The first love of Hans Christian Andersen was the sister of his university friend. She also did not allow him to sleep well at night.
52. Andersen's beloved refused him in the name of a pharmacist.
53. Andersen had to meet with his idol Heine.
54. The Danish writer in England met with Dickens.
55. Hans Christian Andersen's legs and arms were disproportionate.
56. Liver cancer took away from us the great storyteller of Denmark.
57. Andersen never had sexual relations with women or men, although he had physiological needs.
58. Andersen had to visit brothels.
59. Andersen always just talked with prostitutes.
60. As a child, Hans Christian Andersen was nervous.
61. Andersen had thin limbs.
62. Hans Christian Andersen is a bisexual pervert.
63. Andersen described each of his masturbations in his own diary.
64. This person masturbated frequently.
65. Andersen liked young boys.
66. The great storyteller had many friends.
67. Andersen had to fall in love with girls from a decent family.
68. During his lifetime, Andersen has won many awards.
69. Andersen's grandmother worked in a mental hospital.
70. Andersen failed to finish primary school.
71. Hans Christian Andersen was born on a Danish island.
72. In 1833, Hans Christian Andersen received a Royal Fellowship.
73. Andersen even wrote plays.
74. Andersen had only 3 significant meetings with women.
75. Leo Tolstoy placed Andersen's tale in the first primer.
76. Andersen's only legacy was his wonderful fairy tales.
77. Andersen had a good voice.
78. Only in 1840 did Andersen decide to devote himself entirely to fairy tales.
79. Throughout his life, Hans Christian Andersen was a bachelor.
80. Andersen considered the theater to be his recognition.
