Bjornstjerne bjornson biography channel

Bjornstjerne Bjornson Biography

Bjørnson is one of "the great four" Norwegian authors, the others being Henrik Ibsen, Jonas Lie, and Alexander Kielland.

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He wrote the lyrics to the Norwegian national anthem.

He was born on December 8, 1832 at the farmstead of Bjørgen in Kvikne, a remote village in the Østerdal district, some sixty miles south of Trondheim. In 1837 his father, who had been pastor of Kvikne, was transferred to the parish of Nesset, in Romsdal; in this romantic district the childhood of Bjørnson was spent.

After some teaching at the neighbouring town of Molde, he was sent at the age of seventeen to a well-known school in Christiania to study for the university; his instinct for poetry was already awakened, and indeed he had written verses from his eleventh year.

He matriculated at the university of Christiania i