Henrik Wergeland
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 179 years ago |
Date of birth | June 17,1808 |
Zodiac sign | Gemini |
Born | Kristiansand |
Norway | |
Date of died | July 12,1845 |
Died | Oslo |
Norway | |
Spouse | Amalie Sofie Bekkevold |
Children | Olaf Knutsen |
Job | Poet |
Journalist | |
Playwright | |
Education | University of Oslo |
Oslo Cathedral School | |
Books | Jan van Huysums Blomsterstykke |
Den engelske Lods | |
The Army of Truth | |
Poems | |
Papegøien | |
Irreparabile tempus | |
Creation, Man and the Messiah, Jøden | |
Jøden | |
Creation, Man and the Messiah | |
Parents | Nicolai Wergeland |
Alette Thaulow | |
Siblings | Camilla Collett |
Buried | Our Savior's Cemetery, Oslo, Norway |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 654426 |
Henrik Wergeland Life story
Henrik Arnold Thaulow Wergeland was a Norwegian writer, most celebrated for his poetry but also a prolific playwright, polemicist, historian, and linguist. He is often described as a leading pioneer in the development of a distinctly Norwegian literary heritage and of modern Norwegian culture.