Henrik Ibsen

     Henrik Ibsen was born in Skien, a tiny coastal town in the south of Norway. As a child Ibsen dreamed of becoming an artist. His mom, Marichen Cornelia Martine Altenburg, was an painter, and she loved the theatre. Ibsen's education was interrupted by poverty . He went to school for university candidates and often earned money from his journalistic writings.

   In 1858 he married Suzannah Thoresen, the stepchild of the novelist Magdalene Thoresen. Their only child, Sigurd, was born next year. “A Doll´s House” in 1879 was a social drama and toured Europe and America.In the play a woman did not obey her husband and walks out from her perfect marriage, her life in a "doll's house". Physicians used Nora, whose mood changes from happy to sad in short amount of time, as an example of "female hysteria".