Magnus Brostrup Landstad

Magnus Brostrup Landstad was born on 7 October 1802 in Måsøy, in Finnmark, one of the ten children of a pastor whose appointments took him as far as Telemark. Qualified as a theologian in 1827, he was himself a pastor, notably in several parishes of Telemark. He prepared the national hymnal, completed in 1861 with some fifty of his hymns, which remained in use in Norwegian parishes until 1985. He died in Kristiania on 8 October 1880.

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• PoetryNorske FolkeviserMagnus Brostrup Landstad · 1853not translated into EnglishLiterature