Sigbjørn Obstfelder

Sigbjørn Obstfelder was born in Stavanger on 21 November 1866, the son of a baker, in a family of sixteen children. After engineering studies in Kristiania, he left in 1890 for the United States and worked in Milwaukee; returning the following year, he went through a severe nervous breakdown and was hospitalised for some time. In 1898 he married a Dane, Ingeborg Weeke, and died of tuberculosis in Copenhagen on 29 July 1900. Their daughter was born on the day of his burial.

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• PoetryDigteSigbjørn Obstfelder · 1893not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain