Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen (born September 23, 1848 in Frederiksvärn , Norway ; † 1895 ) was a Norwegian-American writer , in particular a novelist .
Born the son of a military officer , he studied modern languages in Christiania and later went to the USA . There he held a professorship at Columbia University in New York .
Boyesen's first literary attempts appeared in a journal published by his compatriots in Chicago: " Fremad ". However, he only achieved significant success with his (English-written) novel “Gunnar” (1874; German, Breslau 1880). His stories are characterized by a peculiar mixture of Nordic depth of mind and American life practice.
Works
- A Norseman's pilgrimage
- Tales from two hemispheres (1879)
- Falconberg (1879)
- Goethe and Schiller (1879)
- Queen Titania (1880)
- Ilka on the hill top, and other stories (1881)
- Idyls of Norway and other poems (1882)
- A Daughter of the Philistines (1883)
- A Harvest of Tares (1893); German (German first edition: Stuttgart: Engelhorn, 1897): New edition: Self-determination. Novel. (From the American English by Mathilde Mann and with an afterword by Marc L. Ratner), Lilienfeld Verlag, Düsseldorf 2008, ISBN 978-3-940357-05-2 (Lilienfeldiana vol. 2)
Web links
- Literature by and about Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen in the Gutenberg-DE project
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian-American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 23, 1848 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frederiksvärn , Norway |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1895 |