The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Ewald, Carl

EWALD, ā'väl, Carl, Danish novelist: b. Schleswig 1856; d. 1908. He was educated at the University of Copenhagen, to which city his family had removed after his native province had fallen to the Germans in 1864. After spending some years as a forester, he turned to literature in 1887, at first issuing school texts and translations. His principal original works are ‘Singleton's Udenlandsrejse’ (1894) ‘Glaede over Danmark’ (1898); ‘Sulasmiths Have’ (1898); ‘Der Kinderkruezzug’ (1896); ‘Mein Kleiner Junge’ (1899); ‘Crumlin’ (1900). Several of his works have been translated into English.