A little about: Peter Andreas Heiberg

PA Heiberg was born in Vordingborg in 1758 and first began his career in the late Enlightenment (1680 to around 1800). Father was headmaster of a grammar school but died when Heiberg was 2nd Therefore, his mother moved the children to his father who was a priest. There they lived until Heiberg himself was in grammar school. Here he was graduated in 1774. In 1777 he took the great philological exam. In 1779 he left Copenhagen, allegedly because of gambling debts. He traveled to Sweden to be a soldier. Eighteen years later frikøbte his family, his service and he, after a brief stay in Uppsala, to Bergen. Here lived his uncle and he was here the next three years. In Bergen Heiberg met many writers who inspired him to want to write something. Since Heiberg came back to Copenhagen, he used his language skills to get work as an interpreter. He also translated "Eusebius, or whatever fruit harvesting of virtue in our time" which was made by the French writer Jean-Charles Laveaux. This work is also critical towards the upper class and therefore safely choose Heiberg to publish it anonymously. Heiberg married, in 1970, with the 16 year-old Thomasine.