Vilhelm Topsøe

Vilhelm Christian Sigurd Topsøe (5 October 1840 – 11 July 1881) was a Danish novelist and journalist.

He went on to study law, graduating in 1865, but while a student also contributed to the Familiekarakteristikker (Family Characteristics) column in the daily newspaper Dagbladet.

In 1863, he published a humorous weekly paper Sværmere (Swarms) in which he wrote satirical political parodies from his national liberal viewpoint.

He continued to work for Dagbladet where he became the parliamentary correspondent under the editor Carl Steen Andersen Bille (1828-1898).

He maintained the post for nine years until he died unexpectedly in 1881 while on holiday in Skodsborg north of Copenhagen [1] His novels, Jason med det gyldne Skind (Jason and the Golden Fleece, 1875), Nutidsbilleder (Images of Today, 1878) and the collection of short stories Fra Studiebogen (From the Study Book, 1879) were all published anonymously.