152 links in total :
- Sites and web services at the Odense City Museums
A list of websites and web services at Odense City Museums
- Hans Christian Andersen picture gallery
Pictures of Andersen, persons he knew and was related to, his home town Odense at his own time and today and more...
- HCA-statues and more
Statues, sculpture, illustrations, memorials, medals and more
- The Fairy Tale of My Life
Excerpts of the autobiography "The Fairy Tale of My Life" (da. 1855).

- The life of Hans Christian Andersen
Women, friends, birthdays, mansions, places and danish towns in Hans Christian Andersen's life.

- Bibliography of Danish Literature
Bibliography of Danish literature.
- The
The Hans Christian Andersen database contains all known letters to, from and about Hans Christian Andersen

- The Hans Christian Andersen Society Odense
The Hans Christian Andersen Society in Copenhagen is a Danish literary society. Its goal is to strengthen common interest for and studies in Hans Christian Andersen's life and writings. The HCA Society in Odense has close relations to the Andersens Museums in Odense.
- The Hans Christian Andersen Society Copenhagen
The Hans Christian Andersen Society in Copenhagen is a Danish literary society. Its goal is to strengthen common interest for and studies in Hans Christian Andersen's persons, life and writings.
- Hans Christian Andersen (German biography)
A German biography by Johan de Mylius.
- Hans Christian Andersen on film
Hans Christian Andersen on film. A teaching resource attached to the films in The Danish Film Institute's theme package containing 8 films on one DVD: "H.C. Andersen på film". Introductory articles by Jens Andersen, Peter Schepelern and others.
- Mulatten
Hans Christian Andersen's play Mulatten ("The Mulatto", 1840) in Danish, scanned from the original by Universitätsbibliothek Kiel.
- The International Movie Database, IMDB
IMDB can provide an overview over movies about Hans Christian Andersen.
- SurLaLune fairy tale pages
A portal to the realm of fairy tale and folklore studies featuring 27 annotated fairy tales, including their histories, similar tales across cultures, over 1,000 illustrations, and a discussion board.
- HCA gives nature voice
Danmarks Naturfredningsforening, skoletjenesten: Ole Laursen on nature and science as a theme in Hans Christian Andersen.
- Music
Music at the Danish Royal Library.

- Travels of Hans Christian Andersen
The Hans Christian Andersen Museum's database of Andersen's journeys abroad. Maps, information about towns/cities, hotels, personal contacts and means of transport.

- Manuscripts, paper cuts, picture books, portraits and music
Hans Christian Andersen at The Royal Library of Copenhagen

- The Fairy Tale of My Life
1st chapter ("Childhood") of Hans Christian Andersen's autobiography "The Fairy Tale of my Life".

- Bredsdorff about childhood and family.
About childhood and family from Elias Bredsdorff's biography.

- The California Connection - Genealogy Homepage
By means of genealogy, a Californian family has found out that they are distantly related to Hans Christian Andersen.

- Manuscripts for the autobiographies
Manuscripts for Andersen's three autobiographies. The site is in Danish.

- Hans Christian Andersen in Arabic
Five H.C. Andersen fairy tales translated into Arabic, lists of other translations, and a comprehensive introduction in both Danish and Arabic by Stig T. Rasmussen.

- PIB: Hans Christian Andersen
A/S Presse-Illustrations-Bureau's illustrations of H.C. Andersen fairy tales at The Comics Museum in Denmark.

- Andersen Stories
Fortællinger, Erzählungen, stories, cuentos, contes, sprookjes, fiabe. Texts, lists and audio books.

- Philatelic Celebration of the International Hans Christian Andersen Year 2005
Hans Christian Andersen on stamps, among which numerous Disney stamps, postmarks, slogan cancels, pharmacy envelopesa and paper money.
- Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen
This site has collected or linked to several hundreds of fairy tales, stories and other works. Many links are with the Pedersen-Frölich illustrationes. The grouping into fairy tales makes the site very easy to use. Here you can also find 107 fairy tales in Esperanto, and the majority of the fairy tales in English, but also fairy tales in many other languages. All fairy tales are linked to the Danish Royal Library's site with corresponding Danish editions. Translations into esperanto was made by L. L. Zamenhof, into Engelsk primarily by H.P. Paull.

- Die Zeit – Rezensionen
The German newspaper Die Zeit's reviews of Hans Christian Andersen
- H.C. Andersen – selected portraits
85 original photographs and 250 portraits of the poet – photographs, drawings, graphics and silhouettes.
- Hans Christian Andersen – Verteller voor de eeuwigheid
Fairy tales, life and work – and stamps! Themapagina over Hans Christiaan Andersen, met zijn verhalen, sprookjes en vertellingen. Tevens extra achtergrondinformatie en een biografie.
- Illustreret Tidende
Periodical 1859-1924. Contains several first prints of Andersen writings and reviews of his works.
- Andersen's Picture Books - Charlotte Melchior and Astrid Stampe
H. C. Andersen made very fine picture books and gave away. The precious gifts were made with cut and glued in pictures as well as poems from the poet's own hand. One was given to Charlotte Melchior, born 4.3.1871, and another, made in cooperation with Andersen's friend Adolph Drewsen, to Astrid Stampe

- Anderseniana 2001, 2002 and 2003
Anderseniana, a Danish periodical about Hans Christian Andersen, 2001 and 2002. With English summaries of the articles.

- Drawings by Hans Christian Andersen
The Hans Christian Andersen Museum's collection of Andersen's drawings in a searchable database.

- Hans Christian Andersen manuscripts
Twenty fairy-tale manuscripts from Odense City's Museums' archives. The museum has also published the manuscript for Mit Livs Eventyr (The Fairy Tale of my Life)

- Hans Christian Andersen Music
"The Hans Christian Andersen data base of music gives access to several hundred pieces of music that are inspired by the Danish writer."

- Hans Christian Andersen Presentation copies
Hans Christian Andersen's handwritten inscriptions.

- Hans Christian Andersens Fairytales in 123 languages
Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales are found in 145 written languages (in 2003)! At the website of the Hans Christian Andersen Museum you can see samples of tales in 123 of these languages.

- HCA 2005 events in Odense
Information about HCA events in Odense, Andersen's hometown, in 2005.
- Papercuts by Hans Christian Andersen
The Hans Christian Andersen Museum's collection of Andersen's papercuts in a searchable database.

- Portrait paintings of Hans Christian Andersen
Portrait paintings and photos of Hans Christian Andersen from the database of Odense City Museums. Search for nothing (!) to display the entire collection.

- The Hans Christian Andersen Museum
Hans Christian Andersen's House/The Hans Christian Andersen Museum; with a considerable collection online, including Hans Christian Andersen's study in Nyhavn 18 and The poet's screen collages.

- Dickens & Andersen
George Valsamis on Charles Dickens and Hans Christian Andersen: what Dickens saw in Andersen and how their stories differ.
- Hans Christian Andersen Adventures with the post
Post & Tele Museum Denmark (www.ptt-museum.dk) has made this website, that tells about Andersen's traveling life and the post services of the past in images, sound, tales and nonfiction.

- Hans Christian Andersen and Ole Bull
A Norwegian article about Hans Christian Andersen and the Norwegian musician Ole Bull.
- The Royal Library - Manuscript department letter collection
Search the index of The Manuscript depicelandicartment at The Royal Library with H. C. Andersen as sender. You might want to try a search with Andersen as recipient as well.

- The Ugly Duckling multimedia in 5 nordic languages
This Finnish pages has Svend Otto S illustrations of The Ugly Duckling accompanied by the read-aloud story. Den stygge andungen Den fula ankungen Ruma ankanpoikanen Ljóti andarunginn

- Commentary for the fairy tales
Fairy tales and stories commented by Erik Dal, Erling Nielsen and Flemming Hovmann in H.C. Andersens eventyr, vol. 7, Det Danske Sprog- og Litteraturselskab 1990.
- Arkiv for Dansk Litteratur (Danish literary classics)
Arkiv for Dansk Litteratur (Archive for Danish Literature) has a comprehensive collection of texts, biographies and bibliographies of Danish writers from the Medieval until the early 20th century.

- Bemærkninger, textkritik, modtagelse
Andersen's own remarks for the fairy tales, Erik Dal about the text and Erling Nielsen on the reviews at Andersen's time, in H.C. Andersens eventyr, bd. 6, Det Danske Sprog- og Litteraturselskab 1990.

- Contemporary Reviews of Hans Christian Andersen
A selection of reviews of Hans Christian andersen at his own time, with bibliographic notes and an introduction to other kinds of literary criticism of Andersen (among others Søren Kierkegaard and Georg Brandes).

- Danish Writers Association's Hans Christian Andersen price
The Danish Writers Association's price in honour of Hans Christian Andersen.
- Der dänische Dichter Hans Christian Andersen und sein Verhältnis zu Deutschland
On the cultural exchange between Germany and Denmark, Hans Christian Andersen's journeys in Germany, comparison between HCA, Grimm and the german romantics and translation of HCA.
- H.C. Andersen
Icelandic website about HCA. Librarian Jónína Óskarsdóttir has written about the 2005 celebration, the Icelandic translators of the fairy tales, and about the life of Andersen. There are many fine pictures from her journey in the footsteps of Andersen in Denmark.
- H.C. Andersen
Flemming Behrendt on Henrik Pontoppidan's view upon Hans Christian Andersen. The article offers related links.

- H.C. Andersen og musikken
HCA and the music. Introduction, background, composers, texts, manuscripts, music and sound.
- H.C. Andersen og Teatret (HCA and the theatre)
The Royal Library's (Copenhagen) exhibition 'Digterens Teaterdrømme' (The poet's dreams of the theatre), including multimedia.

- Hans Christian Andersen - Father of the Modern Fairy Tale


- Hans Christian Andersen - Manuscripts for poems
Manuscripts from the collections of The Royal Library. The selected 58 poems cover the oeuvre's span of years.

- Hans Christian Andersen in Wikipedia
Short articles with lots of links in the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. You may edit or add content yourself.

- Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 - 1875
An article on the life, works and influence of Hans Christian Andersen at scandinavica.com - The Nordic community online, a website about Scandinavia.
- Ragnar Arntzen on H.C. Andersen
Pedagogic site about HCA. New translations, literary history, biography, interactive education and more. For teachers, students and pupils.
- Romantikken og H.C. Andersen
Tales, paintings and literary periods - a course in Danish. Made February 2002 by Tommy Thambour and Ole Pedersen.
- Silkeborg Bibliotek
This site, Litteratursiden.dk shows a well introduced entry for the novels.
- The Andersen Centre's index of works
The Centre's index of Hans Christian Andersen's works with links to the full text where we know about it.

- The international Hans Christian Andersen conferences
The international Hans Christian Andersen conferences - a range of scholars' papers on aspects of HCA and his work.

- Bibliography in Arkiv for Dansk Litteratur (Archive for Danish Literature)
The Danish Royal Library's Bibliography of Hans Christian Andersen at Arkiv for Dansk Litteratur (ADL, Archive for Danish Literature). Gives an useful overview.
- Fairytales in many languages
Further than the flagged-in languages there are fairytales in Galician, Brasilian Portuguese and Hungarian.

- Short biography, biographical themes and author comparison
A short biography, a thematical approach to Andersen's life and a bibliography on ill. Andersen fairy tales in french. Ricochet-jeunes is a portal on youth litterature.
- Project Gutenberg: Hans Christian Andersen
E-texts: fairy tales, O.T., Pictures of Sweden, The True Story of my Life (Das Märchen meines Lebens ohne Dichtung).

- Animals appearing in the fairy tales
A registry of animals appearing in the fairy tales, complete with search engine
- Silkeborg Library, Ib and Little Christine
Silkeborg Library's site about Andersen and Silkeborg - in his fairy tale Ib and Little Christine
- HCA at Denmarks Radio
Danmarks Radio's (Radio of Denmark) website on Hans Christian Andersen - part of the 2005 celebration of HCA. Won the Prix Italia for Best Website 2005.

- MC Andersen
HCA turned into rap music and - lyrics
- Stramboe's Hans Christian Andersen relief, Allerød
Exact copy of only existing relief, hitherto (1954) unknown, of Hans Christian Andersen to which the poet himself has been model. Sculptured 1862 by Stramboe. Further a text on Andersen's relation to the town Allerød
- The Rags - HCA and Esperanto
Illustrated fairy tales, articles, links.

- Author profile on Susning.nu
A very brief biography and a fine starting page for the Swedish pages on Hans Christian Andersen
- Illustrations
Links to pages on both classic and modern Hans Christian Andersen illustrators and their illustrations.

- Fairytales in ukrainian


- H.C. Andersen and Silkeborg
Hans Christian Andersens relations to Silkeborg thoroughly described with fairy tales, diaries, letters and more.
- Danish State Archives - HCA Documents
Pages concerning: Birth and christening, confirmation, The estate of the deceased father and of Andersen, School and marks, Letters and poems, Travel-memories, Death and burial
- Frederiksberg Bibliotek
Seven original HCA fairytale manuscripts from the collections of Frederiksberg Bibliotek (the library of Frederiksberg, Denmark).
- Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Brev (letters)
Letters from Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson to among others Hans Christian Andersen.

- Hans Christian Andersen and Slagelse
About Andersen's time in Slagelse with pictures of the city at that time.
- H.C. Andersen på P2 (HCA at P2, a Danish radio channel)


- At være heldig... (To be lucky...)
On the photographer Clemens Weller, who among others photographed HCA.

- Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales on Stamps
A cronological list of stamps with HCA fairy tale motifs from all over the world.
- Illustrators
Illustrations by Edmund Dulac.
- Universo das Fábulas
A line of fairy tales in Portuguese
- The Flying Suitcase
"The 'Flying Suitcase' school project, introducing the works of the celebrated Dane to all Year 5 pupils in the UK and Ireland"
- Hans Christian Andersen at fyn.dk
HCA at fyn.dk. Surveys, news and links.
- Parachute Theatre Co.
The british Parachute Theatre Company (puppetry) performs "Thumbelina".
- H.C. Andersen. A Biography based on Letters
Kirsten Dreyer's comprehensive biography concerning letters to and from Hans Christian Andersen.

- The Wonderful World of Hans Christian Andersen


- Index général - HCA in French
Authors index in Bibliothèque de Littérature Spiritualiste Et Mystique, in which Andersen is represented with links to eight tales and Picturebook Without Pictures: 'Livre d'images'.
- Online texts and register of works
Works and index of works. The works include Jean Hersholt's The Complete Andersen and the poems The Twelve Months of the Year. Drawn by Ink and Pen

- Andersen fairytales in French
A number of Andersen's fairy tales translated into French
- Dos cuentos de Andersen, traducidos por Eliseo Diego
Two fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen translated into Spanish by Eliseo Diego: The Snail and the Rosebush (El caracol y el rosal) and The Princess on the Pea (La princesa y el frijol).
- Andersen Märchen
Project Gutenberg here presents 159 of the most known fairy tales in German - translated by L. Tronier Funder.
- HCA's almanacs 1833-1873
The almanacs of Hans Christian Andersen.

- August Strindberg interview
August Strindberg was interviewed in the Danish newspaper Politiken 2 April 1905, 100 years after the birth of HCA.

- Gadedigteren
"The street poet" Christian Kronman tells about the life of Hans Christian Andersen, at parties, libraries, clubs and so on.
- The Tinder Box and Other Stories, by Hans Andersen. Illustrated by Helen Stratton.
The Tinder Box and Other Stories, by Hans Andersen. Illustrated by Helen Stratton.
- The True Story of My Life: A Sketch
The True Story of my Life translated by Mary Howitt
- HCA's fairy tale manuscripts
88 of The Royal Library's (Copenhagen) manuscripts for 61 of Hans Christian Andersen's tales. With cronologic and alphabetic survey. Essay by Jesper Gehlert Nielsen and Klaus P. Mortensen.

- Art and Photo
See (and purchase) Andy Warhol posters and screenprints (in a limited edition of 25) of the finest quality based on Hans Christian Andersen's portrait and paper cuts.
- The diaries of Hans Christian Andersen
The diaries of Hans Christian Andersen online. With a search engine, an essay by Torben Brostrøm, registers and indexes of contents.

- Short biography and biographical themes
A short biography, a thematical approach to Andersen's life. Further a comparative article on Andersen - The Grimm brothers and Charles Perrault. Ricochet-jeunes is a portal on youth litterature.
- French index on fairy tale research
Bibliography on fairy tale research in french
- Den lille Havfrue (The Little Mermaid)
A story about the landmark of Denmark. Facts about the mermaid, the tale, the sculpture and the many defacements - pictures from the decapitation in 1964, and much more.
- Hans Christian Andersen on Danish stamps
Hans Christian Andersen on stamps.
- H.C. Andersen 2005
The county council offices in Denmark are preparing to celebrate the Hans Christian Andersen bicentennial anniversary April 2nd 2005 with educational contributions.
- About Danish HCA-Research
"...a cloth, but of silk". About some Danish contributions to Hans Christian Andersen research from 1992 to 1994
- Andersen Award
IBBY is also the organisation behind "The Hans Christian Andersen Award", the highest award for authors of childrens books.
- Andersen Lied-texts
A large collection of Andersen-poetry used as lyrics and Andersen works for which music has been composed.

- Basic Knowledge about H.C. Andersen
A proposal for teaching Andersen from the Danish Ministry of Education. Primary target-grades are middle-school classes, i.e. 4th to 7th grade.
- Bicentennial Project
A project on the occasion of the bicentennial birthday in 2005, with exhibitions worldwide.
- Center for Narratological Studies
The Center for Narratological Studies held a symposium on the narrative challenge in Andersen's fairytales at its opening. There are abstracts on the website.
- Children's book day
IBBY (International Board of Books for Young people) each year celebrates Andersen's birthday with an international children's book day.

- Danish literary classics
This site contains all Andersen's fairy tales and part of his novels - and furhtermore you can see some of his original manuscripts in scanned version.

- Doctoral Thesis about the Theatre Poet
Tove Barfoed Møller has written her doctoral thesis about 'The Theatre Poet H. C. Andersen and "More than Pearls and Gold". The 2nd opponent Chr. Ludvigsen with a short review.
- Esperanto article
Article on Andersen in Esperanto.
- Excerpts of Andersen's unfinished early autobiography from 1832


- Fabeloj de Andersen
47 fairy tales in Esperanto, translated by L. L. Zamenhof.
- Fabeloj de H.C. Andersen
25 fairy tales in Esperanto, translated by L.L. Zamenhof.
- Fairy Tales and Stories
Here Zwi Har'El has listed 128 of Andersen's fairy tales in an English translation by H. P. Paull. The 1st-edition-illustrations by Vilhelm Pedersen and Lorenz Frölich are in some of these 128 fairy tales, all tales with illustrations are marked with a dark ball. Furthermore, the site includes a complete survey of the fairy tales and part of his stories and novels. In additioin, Har'El has made a cross-reference list between the different English fairy tale titles with links to the corresponding fairy tales in the collection of the Danish Royal Library. Finally the site has an "Index Translationum" where you can find titles of fairy tale editions in a number of different languages.
- From the Papers of One Still Living
The debut of Søren Kierkegaard, the review of Hans Christian Andersen's novel Only a Fiddler.
- H.C. Andersen-litteraturen (The Hans Christian Andersen literature) 1995-1998
Aage Jørgensen has continued his comprehensive bibliographic work about literature on Hans Christian Andersen Andersen and covers Andersen-literature from 1875 to 1998 online.
- Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen. Biografía, cuentos y enlaces (biography, fairy tales and links) in Spanish. All Andersen tales that have been translated into Spanish should be here at Hadaluna Lee (www.hadaluna.com).
- Hans Christian Andersen Chronology
An English time table for Hans Christian Andersen's life made by O. Prof. Dr. Sven Hakon Rossel.
- Hans Christian Andersen shop
A Hans Christian Andersen shop, online and in Copenhagen.

- Hans Christian Andersen's dreams
Dreams in the diaries of Hans Christian Andersen
- Hans Christian Andersen's Home Page
Niels Ingwersen has made quite an introduction to Hans Christian Andersen in prospect of his Andersen-lessons where he reveals the context between the tales and the contemporary society. On this site, you will also find a line of interviews with significant Andersen-researchers on the site as well.
- Hans Christian Andersen's Paper Cuts in The Royal Library
The Laage Petersen and the Portman Collection of papercuts. Introduction by Jens Andersen: "Scissor Writing".

- Hans Christian Andersen: Homes and Manor Houses
Alan Sødring has made a well-illustrated, brief survey of a substantial part of the residences, Andersen visited and resided at in Denmark, with information in both Danish and English. The photographs are all by the author.

- Kalliope
A very short biography with a time table by Sven Sørensen.
- Les habits neufs de l'empereur
The Emperor's New Clothes in French translation by Emmanuel Scavée.
- Life and Works. A Timetable 1805-1875
A web-publication of the book "H.C. Andersens liv. Dag for dag" ("The Life of Hans Christian Andersen. Day By Day" (Copenhagen 1998), a biography written by Dphil Johan de Mylius.

- Museum Shop
Articals from the Hans Christian Andersen Museum: Books, jewellery, textiles and other periodical effects.

- Odense Tourist - H. C. Andersen
A list of Andersen-sights in Odense.

- Odense Turist Office
Odense Turist Office's website about Hans Christian Andersen.

- Old Danish Songs
Jørgen Ebert has created a site with 13 old Danish Songs with text written by Hans Christian Andersen.
- People Connected with Hans Christian Andersen
About Hans Christian Andersen's relationships with Rasmus Nyerup, Carl Dahlen, J. N. Thiele, Anne Margrethe Schall, Peter Faber, H. C. Ørsted, W. Bissen, Søren Kierkegaard, Giuseppe Siboni, Vilhelm Pedersen og Familien Collin.
- Picture-Book for Hans Christian Ørsted
The picture-book for Hans Christian Ørsted with Andersen's writings transscripted (only in the Danish version). Introduction by Erik Dal: "Hans Christian Andersen's picture-books and paper-cuts."

- Poems
On the link www.kalliope.org you can find a good number of Andersen's poems (and poems by other authors of several nationalities). It is possible to sort the poems by title line or by opening line - and you can search in the poems.

- Symphonic Fairy Tales
Edition SAMFUNDET - also known as The Society for the Publication of Danish Music is about to orchestrate a huge project with modern music written to Andersen's fairytales in order to celebrate the 200 years birthday of Andersen.

- Teacher Ressource File
The Internet School Library Media Center maintain a teacher's ressource-page about "the father of the literary fairy tale" - Hans Christian Andersen.
- The author Hans Christian Andersen
Bogguide.dk has made an extensive biographical survey of Andersen's life as an author.
- The H.C. Andersen Medal and Memory-medal
Here you will find information concerning the two medals and the people who have received them.
- Try Andersen!
About inspiration for creativity in Hans Christian Andersen's tales.
- Wronski-Determinanten (the Wronski determinant)
"The Tinder Box" retold mathematically (in Danish) by Bodil Helt, Ole Nielsen (Phido) and Erling Veje, September 1959.
- Zur deutschen Übersetzungsproblematik bei Andersen
An academic page concerning problems translating H.C. Andersen (into German) by Alexander Drews.
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