
Birthday
1883/10/01
Day of death
1955/06/15 (71 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Copenhagen, Denmark
Also know as
Harry August Jansen, Dante the Magician, Dante, King of Magicians, Harry August Jensen
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dante was born Harry August Jansen in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1883. Jansen's first glimpses of magic were a distance from his home in New York, in Chicago, where, from the galleries of the McVicker's Theatre, he saw the Great Herrmann, rival and later friend of Harry Kellar. Several illusions were pioneered during Jansen's early career, including "Sawing a woman in half" and several of the illusions of his soon to be successors Thurston and Kellar. Howard ...Read more