Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson was born in Kvikne on 8 December 1832, the son of a pastor, and grew up at the parsonage of Nesset, in Romsdal. He ran the theatre of Bergen in the late 1850s, then that of Christiania in 1865, and wrote the words of the national anthem. Accused of high treason for his ideas, he took refuge in Germany before returning in 1882. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1903, a defender of Dreyfus and of Slovak schoolchildren, he died in Paris on 26 April 1910.

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• TheatreBeyond Our PowerOver Ævne IBjørnstjerne Bjørnson · 1883LiteraturePublic domain