A noted author in his native Denmark, Klaus left the University of Copenhagen to spend the 1950-51 school year with us and then returned home. He said that Princeton was a modern university where students were treated with an equality that did not exist in the University of Copenhagen, where the professors were strict, aloof, and exalted beings.
He joined the German Club and the International Association, and studied English while with us. After returning home, he became a writer, now regarded as Denmark’s most significant author and social critic of the past 60 years.
He wrote 150 books — novels, poetry and criticism — as well as film scripts, TV dramas, and plays. His remarks in The Book of Our History show him as remarkably modest about it all. Two of his novels were published in English in the United States: Anna (I) Anna and Witness to the Future.
He died April 4, 2015. Klaus leaves his wife, Inge, and children Lise, Synne, and Frands, to whom the class extends sympathy, along with our pride in Klaus’ achievements.