Scheel House.
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On this corner stood the building where Henrik Ibsen attended school from 1841. Boye Ording shared a desk with Henrik at school and recounted several anecdotes from their school days. He particularly remembered how skilled Henrik was at drawing, but also that he wrote an essay so good that the teacher accused Henrik of plagiarism. Ibsen himself added to this anecdote that he had refuted the accusation "in a more energetic manner than the teacher approved of." Ording also wrote about a quarrel between Henrik and a classmate they called the Astronomer. One day, the Astronomer had written a satirical verse about Henrik. Henrik responded to the provocation with a caricature of the Astronomer that was so accurate it led to a fight in the classroom.