Henrik Wergeland
Norwegian poet
Died when: 37 years 25 days (444 months)Star Sign: Gemini
Henrik Arnold Thaulow Wergeland (17 June 1808 – 12 July 1845) was a Norwegian writer, most celebrated for his poetry but also a prolific playwright, polemicist, historian, and linguist.
He is often described as a leading pioneer in the development of a distinctly Norwegian literary heritage and of modern Norwegian culture.
Though Wergeland only lived to be 37, his range of pursuits covered literature, theology, history, contemporary politics, social issues, and science.
His views were controversial in his time, and his literary style was variously denounced as subversive.
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