Henrik Wergeland

Henrik Wergeland

male, deceased (1845)
Henrik Arnold Thaulow Wergeland (June 17, 1808-July 12 1845) was a Norwegian poet and prose writer, born in Kristiansand. He was the oldest son of...
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

male, deceased (1910)
Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson was a Norwegian writer and a 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. Bjørnson is generally considered as one of "Th...
Fridtjof Nansen

Fridtjof Nansen

male, deceased (1930)
Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen (born October 10, 1861 in Store Frøen, near Christiania - died May 13, 1930 in Lysaker, outside Oslo) was a N...
Sondre Norheim

Sondre Norheim

male, deceased (1897)
Sondre Norheim, born Sondre Auverson was a Norwegian skier and pioneer of modern skiing. Born at Øverbø and raised in Morgedal in the mu...
Peder Anker

Peder Anker

male
Peder Anker was a Norwegian businessman and politician. Anker was a son of the wealthy merchant Christian Anker, who had acquired extensive forests...
Johan Sebastian Welhaven

Johan Sebastian Welhaven

male, deceased (1873)
Johan Sebastian Cammermeyer Welhaven, (December 22, 1807- October 21, 1873), Norwegian poet and critic, was born in Bergen, the son of a pastor, in...

Peter Christen Asbjørnsen

male, deceased (1885)
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen was a Norwegian writer and scholar. He and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe (1813-1882) were collectors of Norwegian folklore. Th...
Sophus Bugge

Sophus Bugge

male, deceased (1907)
Sophus Bugge (1833-1907) was a Norwegian philologist, known for his work on the runic alphabet and the Eddas. Bugge was born at Laurvik, Norway, 5...
Christopher Hansteen

Christopher Hansteen

male, deceased (1873)
Christopher Hansteen (September 26, 1784-April 11, 1873) was a Norwegian astronomer and physicist. Hansteen was born in Christiania. From the...
Vilhelm Bjerknes

Vilhelm Bjerknes

male, deceased (1951)
Vilhelm Friman Koren Bjerknes (March 14, 1862 - April 9, 1951) was a Norwegian physicist and meteorologist who did much to found the modern...