Editing Hans Christian Andersen (section)

==Death==
[[File:Melchior Family Group Rolighed c. 1867.jpg|thumb|upright|Andersen at Rolighed: Israel Melchior (c. 1867)]]

In early 1872, at the age of 67, Andersen fell out of his bed and was severely hurt; Andersen never fully recovered from the resultant injuries. Soon afterward, he started to show signs of [[liver cancer]].<ref name="Bryant">{{Cite book |last=Bryant |first=Mark |url=http://archive.org/details/privatelivescuri0000brya |title=Private lives : curious facts about the famous and infamous |publisher=[[Cassell (publisher)|Cassell]] |year=1997 |isbn=978-0-304-34923-4 |location=London |pages=3}}</ref>

Andersen died on 4 August 1875 at the age of 70 in a country house called ''[[Rolighed (Østerbro)|Rolighed]]'' (literally: calmness) near Copenhagen, the home of his close friends, the banker [[Moritz G. Melchior]] and his wife.<ref name="Bryant"/> Shortly before his death, Andersen consulted a composer about the music for his funeral, saying: "Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with little steps."<ref name="Bryant"/>

Andersen's body was interred in the [[Assistens Cemetery (Copenhagen)|Assistens Kirkegård]] in the [[Nørrebro]] area of [[Copenhagen]], in the Collin family plot. In 1914, the headstone was moved to another cemetery (today known as ''"''Frederiksbergs ældre kirkegaard"), where younger Collin family members were buried. For a period, his, Edvard Collin's, and Henriette Collin's graves were unmarked. A second stone has been erected, marking Andersen's grave, now without any mention of the Collin couple, but all three still share the same plot.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Historien om H.C. Andersens gravsted på Assistens Kirkegård i København |url=https://www.hcandersen-homepage.dk/?page_id=6226 |access-date=18 November 2023 |website=H.C. Andersen Information | date=13 April 2012 |language=da-DK}}</ref>

At the time of his death, Andersen was internationally revered, and the Danish government paid him an annual [[stipend]] for being a "national treasure."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2 April 2014 |title=Hans Christian Andersen |url=https://www.biography.com/authors-writers/hans-christian-andersen |access-date=18 November 2023 |website=Biography |publisher=[[A&E Networks]]}}</ref>