Altenburggården
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Altenburggården (Altenburg House) was a large townhouse in central Skien, Norway, known as the childhood home of the playwright Henrik Ibsen and his mother Marichen Altenburg. It burned down during the great fire of 1886. It was located at the address Skistredet 20.
History
The house is named for the wealthy Skien merchant Johan Andreas Altenburg (1763–1824), Henrik Ibsen's maternal grandfather, who was most likely its first owner.[1] [2] He was a shipowner, timber merchant and owned a liquor distillery at Lundetangen. Altenburggården had no garden, but the Altenburg family owned a farm outside the city, Århus. Johan Andreas Altenburg was married to Hedevig Christine Paus (1763–1848), and after her husband's death she became the owner of the house in 1824. Their daughter Marichen Altenburg (1799–1869)—Henrik Ibsen's mother—grew up in Altenburggården. Hedevig's father Cornelius Paus (civil servant) moved into the house in the late 18th century and died there in 1799. In the same year, Johan Andreas Altenburg's sister Kristine Cathrine Ploug (née Altenburg), called «aunt Ploug» in the Altenburg and later Ibsen family, moved in with them. Marichen's maternal first cousin Henrik Johan Paus (1799–1893)—who was also the half-brother of Marichen's later husband Knud Ibsen—lived in Altenburggården as a foster child with his uncle and aunt from the age of five; Marichen's paternal cousin Marichen Bomboff (b. 1806) also lived in the home.[3]
Hedevig Altenburg transferred the building to her son-in-law Knud Ibsen in 1830, and the Ibsen family moved in during 1831. Henrik Ibsen lived there from 1831 until 1836. In 1835 Knud Ibsen sold Altenburggården to the merchant Teleph Stub Plesner (1811–1852), and the Ibsen family moved to their country house Venstøp [no] the following year.[3]
References
- ^ Leif K. Roksund (1995). "Altenburggården". Lokalhistorisk vandring i Skien. [Skien]: Fortidsminneforeningen i Telemark. p. 74. ISBN 8290052499.
- ^ J[ames] Borchsenius (1934). Skien før branden 1886. Oslo: Fabritius & sønners forlag.
- ^ a b Haave, Jørgen (2017). Familien Ibsen. Museumsforlaget. ISBN 9788283050455.
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members
- Sir Hans Olufsson (ca. 1500), cleric
- Sir Hans Povelsson Paus the Elder (1587), cleric
- Sir Peder Povelsson Paus (1590), cleric
- Sir Povel Hansson Paus (1620), cleric
- Sir Povel Pedersson Paus (1625), cleric
- Sir Hans Povelsson Paus (1656), cleric
- Cornelius Povelsson Paus (1662), judge
- Peder Hansson Paus (1691), judge
- Hans Pedersson Paus (1721), judge
branch
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- Cornelius Paus (1726), civil servant
- Hedevig Paus (1763)
- Ole Paus (1766), shipowner
- Henrik Johan Paus (1799), lawyer
- Christian Cornelius Paus (1800), governor
- Christopher Blom Paus (1810), shipowner
- Henrik Ibsen (1828), playwright
- Johan Altenborg Paus (1834), war commissioner
- Ole Paus (1846), industrialist
- Karl L. Paus (1856), industrialist
- Christopher Lintrup Paus CBE (1881), British diplomat
- Thorleif (von) Paus (1881), diplomat
- George Wegner Paus (1882), lawyer
- Hans Wangensten Paus (1891), engineer
- Robert Paus Platt OBE (1905), British diplomat
- Helvig (von) Paus (1909)
- Ole (von) Paus (1910), general
- Per Paus (1910), industrialist
- Thorleif Lintrup Paus (1912), diplomat
- Cecilie Paus (1943), shipping magnate
- Peder Paus (1945), businessman
- Ole Paus (1947), singer
- Pontine Paus (1973), shipping heir
- Olympia Paus (1976), shipping heir
- Marcus Paus (1979), composer
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- Bernhard Cathrinus Pauss (1839), theologian
- Henriette Pauss (1841), teacher
- Olav Pauss (1863), shipowner
- Nikolai Nissen Paus (1877), surgeon/humanitarian
- Augustin Paus (1881), industrialist
- Bernhard Paus (1910), surgeon/humanitarian
- Vilhelm Paus (1915), diplomat
- Brita Collett Paus (1917), humanitarian
- Nikolai Paus (1944), businessman
- Pauspur
- Paus collection (Paus Trajan)
- Herresta
- Kvesarum Castle
- Villa Paus
- Esviken
- Paus & Paus
- Ole Paus Company
- Wilh. Wilhelmsen