Henrik Pontoppidan
- Birth Date
- 7/24/1857 - 8/21/1943
- Birth Place
- Frederica, Denmark
- Known For
- Writing
Henrik Pontoppidan was a Danish realist writer who shared with Karl Gjellerup the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1917 for "his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark." He was the youngest and in many ways the most original and influential member of the Modern Break-Through.
