Henrik Wergeland

Henrik Wergeland was born in Kristiansand on 17 June 1808, the son of the pastor Nicolai Wergeland, a deputy at the Eidsvoll assembly in 1814. A graduate in theology in 1829, he was never appointed to a parish, his conduct being thought unpredictable. He founded libraries and popular periodicals, became university librarian in 1836, then keeper of the national archives, and campaigned for the admission of Jews to Norway, granted in 1851. He died in Christiania on 12 July 1845.

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• PoetrySkabelsen, Mennesket og MessiasHenrik Wergeland · 1830not translated into EnglishLiterature