3. Mr. Ibsen had to leave school at age 15 and worked as a pharmacist apprentice.
4. At age 23 he became theatre director and resident playwright of the new National Theatre at Bergen, charged with creating a “national drama.”
5. In 1850 Henrik Ibsen went to Christiana  to prepare for entrance exams into a university. He was not accepted and gave up on his dream of being a doctor and started studying drama as a stage manager.
6.  After the satire Pillars of Society (1877) he found his voice and an international audience with powerful studies of middle-class morality in A Doll’s House (1879) and Ghosts (1881)
7. He greatly influenced European theatre and is regarded as the founder of modern prose drama.
8. Henrik Ibsen died May 23, 1906 from a stroke
9. While Ibsen may be gone, his work continues to be performed around the world. Peer Gynt, A Doll's House and Hedda Gabler are the most widely produced plays today.
10. After Shakespeare he is considered as the second most influential and insightful dramatist and poet of the 19th century.
11.  A Norwegian playwright and poet Henrik Ibsen is considered as the father of Modern Theatre. He is also referred as the father of realism. 
12.  Henrik Ibsen was the eldest of his five siblings. 
13. All through his childhood, Ibsen had been doomed and depressive that can easily be seen in his work which is as much a reflection of his own life. Even in most plays he had named his characters after his family and acquaintances like in his most surreal drama, Rosmersholm (1886).
14. In 1843, upon being forced to leave school, Ibsen traveled to the town of Grimstad, where he started apprenticing in an apothecary’s shop. 
15. His family’s fleeting financial fortunes had a lasting impression on his work, as several of his plays feature middle-class families dealing with financial hardship in a society that values morality and decorum. 
16. In his later works, the psychological conflicts Ibsen subjected his characters to went beyond the challenge of the mores of the time, having a more universal and interpersonal dimension. 
17. He suffered his first stroke in 1900, and he died in 1906 in his home in Kristiania. In his last years, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature three times, in 1902, 1903, and 1904. 

18. Ibsen had an interest in becoming an artist from a young age.
19. Love’s Comedy 1862, a satire on romantic illusions, was violently unpopular, but it expressed an authentic theme of anti-idealism.
20. In 1849, he wrote his first play influenced by William Shakespeare named Catilina.

SOURCES:
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/henrik-ibsen-198.php

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henrik-Ibsen

Source:
https://elearning.logosacademy.edu.ec/mod/resource/view.php?id=169291

2.      His father was a successful merchant and his mother painted, played the piano and loved to go to the theater. Reason why Ibsen later on liked theaters.

3.      He was the oldest of five children, and due to many factors Ibsen´s family became poor when he was 8 years old.

4.      At 15 he left school and started to work on a pharmacy in Grimstad, and worked till he was 21 years old.

5.      In 1849, Ibsen wrote his first pay Catilina, a drama written in verse modeled after one of his great influences, William Shakespeare. 

6.      Early on, in 1850 he moved to Christiania to prepare for university of Christiania.

7.      In 1851, he meets Ole Bull, a violinist who offered Ibsen a work as a writer and manager for the Norwegian Theatre in Bergen. 

8.      After, in 1857, returned to Christiania, but wasn´t what he expected, didn´t went as well. But, he got time to write another piece of art, Love’s Comedy, in 1862.

9.      In 1862, when he left Norway to settle in Italy, he creates on of his masterworks, Peer Gynt.

10.   In 1868, Ibsen moved to Germany and saw his work The Pillars of Society being first performed in Munich. This play got him famous and helped his career to later create, A Doll’s House. 

11.   In 1881, he publishes, Ghosts. Due to the outcry was so strong, the play wasn’t performed after two years. 

12.   Later he publishes, An enemy of the People. It was Ibsen’s response to the backlash of the comments he received for Ghosts.

13.   In 1888, he wrote The Lady from the Sea and in 1890 he writes Hedda Gabler.

14.   In 1891, Ibsen returns to Norway considerate a literary hero. 

15.   After his homecoming, Ibsen got reflective on his later on works. 

16.   One of his last plays was, we dead awaken.

17.   In 1900, Ibsen started to have series of strokes.

18.   Finally, Ibsen died on May, 1906.

19.   Currently his works are still performed worldwide.

20.   He is considerate the father of Realism. 

Henrik Ibsen was born in Skien, Norway

Henrik's father became bankrupt therefore they were forced to move to a rural cottage 

Henrik's father has to give up his business. The properties are auctioned off. 

The family moves to Venstøp, a farm in Gjerpen. 

Has an illegitimate child 

 Ibsen writes Catiline. 

Ibsen, became an artistic manager at the Christiana Norwegian Theater, however, there were notable failures and it went bankrupt. 

 Ibsen moves to Dresden and lives there for seven years. 

1879
 He writes and publishes A Doll’s House, which was first staged at Det Kongelige  Teater in Copenhagen 

1881
 He wrote and published Ghosts
May 20th,1882
Ghosts was staged at the Aurora Turner hall in Chicago
1882
 Ibsen wrote and published An Enemy of the People
January 13th,1883
An Enemy of the People was first staged at Christiania Theatre
1885
 Ibsen visits Norway and proceeds to move to Munich and stay there for six years. 

1891
 Henrik Ibsen returns to Norway and settles in Christiania. 

1895
 Henrik Ibsen moves to an apartment on the corner of Arbiensgate and Drammensveien in Christiania and remains there for the rest of his life. 

1900
Henrik Ibsen suffered his first stroke
May 23,1906
Henrik Ibsen dies.