biography
| name: |
Asbjörnsen, Peter Christian
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pronunciation:
[asbyoe(r)nsen]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1812–85)
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| biography:
| Folklorist, born in Oslo (formerly Christiania), Norway. He studied at the university there, then for four years was a tutor in the country. In long journeys on foot he collected a rich store of popular poetry and folklore, and, with his lifelong friend Jörgen Moe (1813–82), Bishop of Christiansand, published the famous collection of Norwegian folk tales, Norske Folkeeventyr (1841–4). |
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