Pic Description: April 2, 1805 Born in the slums of Odense Dan Maifei Britain Island, a college education. Father was a poor shoemaker, was volunteer service, the aggression against Napoleon Bonaparte, died in 1816 after military service. When the laundry's mother soon remarried. Andersen grew up poor tortured, worked in several shops as an apprentice, no formal education. Youth that is interested in the stage, fantasy as a singer, actor or playwright.