author
Julius Moritzen
1863–1946
A Danish-born man of letters who brought European ideas to English-speaking readers, he wrote on figures like Georg Brandes, Hans Christian Andersen, and Voltaire. His work ranges from literary biography and criticism to translations and a study of the American peace movement.
1 Audiobook
Oration on Voltaire
by Victor Hugo, Julius Moritzen
About the author
Born in 1863, Julius Moritzen was a Danish-born writer who later lived in the United States. Contemporary notices describe him as a native of Odense, Denmark, and by the late 1930s he was working from Brooklyn, translating literary and critical works from Danish into English.
His writing shows a strong interest in major European literary and intellectual figures. He wrote Georg Brandes in Life and Letters in 1922, contributed essays on Hans Christian Andersen, and is credited in public-domain editions connected with Oration on Voltaire. He also wrote The Peace Movement of America, showing that his interests reached beyond literature into public affairs and reform.
Moritzen seems to have worked mainly as an interpreter of ideas: a biographer, critic, translator, and cultural mediator who helped English-language readers engage with Scandinavian and broader European thought. A confirmed portrait image was not readily available from the sources I could verify during this search.