Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe

Peter Christen Asbjørnsen was born in Christiania on 15 January 1812, the son of a glazier; Jørgen Moe was born in Ringerike in 1813, the son of a farmer, according to Britannica. They became friends at the Norderhov secondary school and pooled the tales that each of them collected. Asbjørnsen, a zoologist, became a forest master and translated Darwin; Moe, a theologian, was bishop of Kristiansand from 1875. Asbjørnsen died in Christiania on 5 January 1885, three years after Moe, who died on 27 March 1882.

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• TaleNorwegian Folk TalesNorske FolkeeventyrPeter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe · 1844Literature