Jónas Hallgrímsson

Jónas Hallgrímsson was born on 16 November 1807 at Hraun, in the Öxnadalur, and lost his father in 1816. Educated at the school of Bessastaðir, he left in 1832 for Copenhagen to study law, moved after four years to literature and the natural sciences, and in 1835 founded with three companions a journal that defended the national renaissance. A state scholarship holder, he studied Icelandic nature from 1839 to 1842. A translator of scientific works and of Heine, he also coined new words, such as the one that designates the planet. He died in Copenhagen on 26 May 1845.

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• PoetryLjóðmæliJónas Hallgrímsson · 1847not translated into EnglishLiterature