GJELLERUP, KARL (18J7-1919), Danish poet and novel ist, was born on July 2, 1857, at Roholte, Zealand. His early works, written under the influence of Georg Brandes, were strongly optimistic in character ; the best of these is The Disciple of the Teutons (1882). But a prolonged journey in southern and eastern Europe brought out other aspects of his many-sided genius, and he wrote dramas and novels showing a deeper comprehension of the spiritual and ethical problems of life. In his later years he took up classical, Gothic and Eastern subjects as the basis of his work. Of a series of these—Die Op f er f euer (1903), Das W eib der V ollen deten (1907), Der Pilger Kamanota (1906), Die Weltwanderer (1 91 o)—the scene is laid in India. Gjellerup wrote many of his later works in German. From 1892 onwards he lived at Klotzsche, near Dresden, where he died on Oct. 11, 1919. He had received the Nobel prize for literature in