Alexander Lange Kielland

Alexander Lange Kielland was born in Stavanger on 18 February 1849, into a wealthy family of merchants. He took a law degree in 1871, ran a brickworks for nine years, treating his workers well, and then turned to letters after a stay in Paris. A reader of Mill and Brandes, he made his books a social critique, above all of the hypocrisy of the clergy. He almost stopped writing in 1891, became mayor of his town, then governor of Møre og Romsdal, and died in Bergen on 6 April 1906.

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• NovelGarman and WorseGarman og WorseAlexander Lange Kielland · 1880LiteraturePublic domain