Theodor storm biography wikipedia

Danish cyclist

Theodor Storm (born 31 March ) is a Danish cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeamIneos Grenadiers.

Career

Storm rode in and for the Danish team NPV–Carl Ras Roskilde. Aged 17 years-old, Storm raced at the UEC European Track Championships in Grenchen, Switzerland in February against elite riders.

He finished third at the Paris–Roubaix Juniors in and also finished fifth in the junior road race at the UCI Road World Championships in Glasgow in August after helping teammate Albert Philipsen to victory.

He signed to ride for UCI WorldTeamIneos Grenadiers from , agreeing to a three-year contract. He was initially due to turn pro with Ineos in , but his pathway was fast-tracked in December to move straight from juniors and skip the U23s into the World Tour. However, after competing in the Madison at the UEC European Track Championships, he was diagnosed with autoimmune illness Guillain-Barré syndrome which led to him being hospitalised for a few months in and was unable to compete in the road season.

Major results

Road

Track

3rd Madison, UEC European Championships (with Michael Mørkøv)

References

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Biography

German poet and novelist whose novellas are among the finest in German literature. Storm is an outstanding representative of German poetic Realism, which had as its aim the portrayal of the positive values of everyday life

Storm practised law in Husum until , when the Danish occupation of Schleswig forced him to move to Potsdam. His strong patriotic feelings are expressed in his poetry from this period. After living in Heiligenstadt, where he had been transferred as a magistrate, he returned to Schleswig when the Danish left it in A year later his wife died, occasioning the climax of his lyrics in the cycle Tiefe Schatten (). By this time, however, he had already begun to concentrate on writing novellas.

One of his most important early works is Immensee, a moving story of the vanished happiness of childhood, which, like so many of his works, is coloured by a haunting nostalgia. As his writing matured his novellas displayed subtler psychological insight, greater realism, and a wider scope of themes—including class tensions, social problems, and religious bigotry—expressing his recurrent concern with man’s isolation and struggle with his fate.

He retired in to Hadermarschen, where he wrote his last and greatest novella, Der Schimmelreiter (; The Rider on the White Horse, ), which, with its forceful hero and terse, objective style, shows vivid imagination and great narrative verve.

Storm was married twice. He died of cancer on 4 July at age 70 in Hademarschen.

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Relationships

• other kin relationship with Bachér, Franz (born 21 May ). Notes: Grandkin

Events

• Death, Cause unspecified 4 July (Cancer, age 70)

Source Notes

Arno Müller, vol 2.

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&#;STORM, THEODOR WOLDSEN (), German poet and novelist, was born at Husum, in Schleswig, on the 14th of September Having studied jurisprudence at Kiel and Berlin, where he formed a close friendship with the brothers Theodor and Tycho Mommsen, he settled in his native town as advocate; but, owing to his German sympathies, lost his post in Entering the Prussian service as assessor at Potsdam, he was appointed district judge at Heiligenstadt. After the &#;Danish War of Storm returned to Husum, and after filling various judicial appointments in the district, retired on a pension and died at Hademarschen on the 4th of July Storm is hardly less remarkable as a lyric poet than as a novelist. As the former, he made his début, with the two Mommsens, with Liederbuch dreier Freunde (); but his Gedichte (; 12th edition, ) first obtained for him general recognition. As a novelist he gained his first great success with Immensee (; 51st edition, ); and this was followed by numerous other short stories. He was never weary of painting the scenes of rustic simplicity and the quiet joys of the simple life. He is at his best when dealing retrospectively with episodes and incidents from his own earlier life. Later he passed to psychological problems with Aquis submersus () and Zur Chronik vonGrieshuus (), and made a deep impression with his fantastic Schimmelreiter ().

German writer and poet ()

Hans Theodor Woldsen Storm (German pronunciation:[ˈteːodoːɐ̯ˈʃtɔʁm]; 14 September &#;&#; 4 July ), commonly known as Theodor Storm, was a German-Frisian writer and poet. He is considered to be one of the most important figures of German realism.

Life

Storm was born in the small town of Husum, on the west coast of Schleswig, then a formally independent duchy ruled by the king of Denmark. His parents were the lawyer Johann Casimir Storm (–) and Lucie Storm, née Woldsen (–).

Storm attended school in Husum and Lübeck and studied law in Kiel and Berlin. While still a law student in Kiel he published a first volume of verse together with the brothers Tycho and Theodor Mommsen ().

Storm was involved in the revolutions and sympathized with the liberal goals of a united Germany under a constitutional monarchy in which every class could participate in the political process. From until his admission was revoked by Danish authorities in , he worked as a lawyer in his home town of Husum. In Storm moved to Potsdam, moving on to Heiligenstadt in Thuringia in He returned to Husum in after Schleswig had come under Prussian rule and became a district magistrate ("Landvogt"). In Storm moved to Hademarschen, where he spent the last years of his life writing, and died of cancer at the age of

Storm was married twice, first to Konstanze Esmarch, who died in , and then to Dorothea Jensen.

Work

Storm was one of the most important authors of 19th-century German Literary realism. He wrote a number of stories, poems and novellas. His two best-known works are the novellas Immensee () and Der Schimmelreiter ("The Rider on the White Horse"), first published in April in the Deutsche Rundschau. Other published works include a volume of his poems (), the novella Pole Poppenspäler () and the novella Aquis submersus ().

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