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Matthew Patay's
Note of the Month
March 2004
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This month's featured note
is from the Denmark.
The denomination is 200 Kroner and the Standard Catalog of World Paper Money
(SCWPM) Number is P-57.
The note is dated (19)97.
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(front)
The banknote is black and dark blue on turquoise green and multicolored under print.
Johanne Luise Heiberg (1812 - 1890),
actress and producer, is at
right.
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The following information
was obtained from:
Royal
Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Johanne Luise Heiberg
(1812 - 1890)
Johanne Luise Heiberg,
née Pätges, 1812-1890, the undisputed prima donna of the Romantic age. She
began as a child in the ballet school of the Royal Theatre in 1820, but
finally moved into drama when Johan Ludvig Heiberg wrote the vaudeville
Aprilsnarrene (The April Fools) for her in 1826. They married in 1831, and
Johanne Luise thereby found herself at the centre of Copenhagen intellectual
life. Dramatists vied with each other to write parts for her: from the
dreamily erotic to the passionate and demonic, but also with due respect to
Romanticism's ideal of beauty. The philosopher Søren Kierkegaard wrote a
detailed description of her art. After leaving the stage, she worked for
some years as a producer, not least of a couple of plays by Henrik Ibsen.
Mrs Heiberg left one of the greatest works of Danish memoir literature, Et
Liv gjenoplivet i Erindringen (1891-1892, A Life Re-Lived in Memory). Her
career is often compared with that of Hans Christian Andersen, and in 1981
the Swedish dramatist Per Olov Enquist brought the two together in Fra
regnormenes liv (From the Life of the Earthworms).
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(back)
A stone lion relief from Viborg Cathedral is at left center.
The following information
was obtained from:
Viborg Tourist Bureau
Viborg Cathedral
Viborgs most famous church is the Cathedral, which is not only known for its two dominating towers but also for the lion featured on the Danish 200 kroner bank note.
The Cathedral of
Viborg dominates the look of the city and the two towers can be seen far away.
Archaeological excavation indicates that a church has be situated here since the
Viking Age (approximately 1130). The present cathedral is from 1876 and is one
of the biggest granite churches in the North. Inside the cathedral is decorated
with the impressive murals - an enormous picture bible - by Joakim Skovgaard.
The seven-armed candlestick from the late 15th century also makes the cathedral
well worth a visit.
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