Hans Jæger

Hans Jæger was born in Drammen on 2 September 1854, the son of a policeman, and grew up in Bergen. Orphaned early, he was a sailor from the age of fifteen, then studied philosophy and became an employee of the Storting. Leader of the Kristiania bohemians, he lost his post after the trial of his first novel, served his sentence and then lived mostly in Paris, where he was a press correspondent. Having become an anarchist, he published in 1906 a “bible of anarchy”. He died of cancer in Kristiania on 8 February 1910.

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• NovelFra Kristiania BohemenHans Jæger · 1885not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain