C. Henrik (Carl Henrik) Scharling

Born in Copenhagen on May 3, 1836, and dying on June 6, 1920, Carl Henrik Scharling was a Danish writer and theologian. Reliable reference sources identify him as a Danish author, and his life and career were closely tied to religious scholarship as well as literature.

Scharling is remembered as a novelist and man of letters whose writing grew out of the intellectual world of 19th-century Denmark. The surviving reference material also shows his connection to theology, which helps explain why his work is often associated with moral reflection and a strong sense of cultural setting.

For modern listeners, Scharling offers a window into an older Scandinavian literary tradition: thoughtful, historically rooted, and shaped by the concerns of both the church and the wider reading public of his time.