Biography
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Harald Henrik Sager Kidde was a Danish writer and brother of the politician Aage Kidde. He is best known for the novel Helten (The Hero), which is one of the key novels in Danish literature.[1] Kidde died of Spanish Flu in 1918. Only 40 years old. There is an extensive Kidde-archive at Vejle Town Archive.Harald Kidde was born as the eldest son of road and waterways inspector in Vejle County Chresten Henriksen Kidde (1818–1894) and his wife Inger Dorothea "Doris" Cornelius (1848–1931). In his childhood he read the Danish author J. P. Jacobsen and German romantic poetry, which profoundly influenced his perspective on the world.[2] He graduated from Vejle Højere Almenskole in 1898 and took the mandatory preliminary course in philosophy for entering the university in 1899 after which he began studying theology at the University of Copenhagen. But influenced by the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard he could not come to terms with what he saw as the lutheran church's thoroughly inadequte explanations of the inherent contradictions in the Bible. Even so a self sacrificing Christian life remained his ideal for the rest of his life.[3]
