cultural resources in henrik ibsen's early environment - Ibsen.net

how under the circumstances in which he found himself he could be so cheerful and
lively as was the case.
SCHUL(E)RUD, IBSEN'S LOYAL FRIEND
One day Grimstad was surprised that a young student made his entrance, outside
of the usual holiday time and in order to pursue his legal studies for a whole year in his
home there. A student was a rare sight in those parts. The annual total of matriculated
students was then about one-tenth of what it is now, and small towns like Grimstad as a
rule could not produce more than a couple, who then could be seen during some weeks of
holiday. There were for many years only two native-born students. Inevitably, then, to a
certain extent one had to look up to an academician, and since the one in question here
was in addition a very charming and sympathetic young man, he soon became an
accepted person in our circle. My relationship of service to his father brought me
immediately in touch with him, and as soon as possible I introduced to Ibsen his later
loyal and sacrificing friend, then law-student Ole Carelius Schulrud (born in 1827,
accordingly a year old than Ibsen, died as an attorney practicing before the appellate court
in Christiania in 1859).
Accordingly, within a short time they were intimate friends, and we two, Ibsen's
first "trusting and loyal," as he calls us in the preface to the second edition of Catiline,
then created with Ibsen as leading character a triumvirate, which acquired so much
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