He died peacefully at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon. Mme. Ibsen, her son, Dr. Sigurd Ibsen, and the latter's wife were at his bedside. He was 78 years of age.

After years in Germany and Italy, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen returned to Oslo to spend the last decade of his life. His apartment at Henrik Ibsensgate, where he lived an intensely private ...