Aasmund Olafson Vinje

Norwegian writer
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Born:
April 6, 1818, Vinje, Norway
Died:
July 30, 1870, Gran (aged 52)

Aasmund Olafson Vinje (born April 6, 1818, Vinje, Norway—died July 30, 1870, Gran) was a poet and journalist who wrote some of the finest lyric poems in Norwegian literature. The son of a poor tenant farmer, Vinje took a law degree but then struggled to support himself by teaching, writing, and working as a government clerk. In 1851 he began writing for an Oslo newspaper, and in 1858 he started a newspaper of his own, Dølen (“The Dalesman”), in which he helped establish the new rural variant of the Norwegian language known as New Norwegian, or Nynorsk. In his newspaper ...(100 of 236 words)