Grímur Thomsen

Grímur Thomsen (May 15, 1820 – November 27, 1896), Icelandic poet and editor, was born in Bessastaðir in 1820.

In 1837, he went to the University of Copenhagen, where he studied law and philology, but he also became interested in philosophy and aesthetics.

[1] At the University of Copenhagen, Thomsen wrote a dissertation on Byron and received a master's degree.

Because of the quality of his written dissertation, he received a scholarship to travel around Europe for two years.

In addition to being a poet (two separate collections, Reykjavik, 1880, and Copenhagen, 1895) he is also the author of numerous critical and historical essays in Icelandic and Danish.