Ewald, Carl
Ewald, Carl (1856–1908),Danish journalist and novelist, who grew up in Bredelykke ved Gram, a small Danish city under German rule in the 1850s and 1860s. His father, H. F. Ewald, was a well‐known novelist and Danish nationalist. He moved his family to Elsinore, Denmark, in 1864 because he could not tolerate being governed by the Germans. A stern and didactic disciplinarian, he sent Carl to high school in nearby Fredricksborg and hoped his son would pursue a respectable career. However, in 1880, after Ewald tried his hand at forestry, he moved to Copenhagen and began earning his living as a journalist and freelance writer. Soon he made a name for himself with a series of novels that tended to expose the hypocrisy and corruption in Danish society. Strongly influenced by social Darwinism, Ewald depicted the brutal struggles for survival as a result of natural and social forces that shaped humankind's destiny. During the 1880s he effectively...
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