Author, born in Frederiksvärn, Norway, on the 23rd of September 1848. He was educated at the Gymnasium in Christiania, and graduated in 1868 at the University of Norway, having pursued a course of study at Leipsic, Germany. In the same year he came to the United States, where, in 1869, he became editor of Fremad, a Scandinavian paper printed in Chicago. From 1874 to 1880 he taught German in Cornell, and then was called to the same work at Columbia College, where, later, the chair of Germanic languages and literatures was created for him. During his residence in this country he has shown a marked aptitude for writing stories and poetry in English. He has been a frequent contributor to the magazines of the day. A partial list of his books is as follows: Gunnar: A Norse Romance; A Norseman’s Pilgrimage; Tales from Two Hemispheres; Goethe and Schiller: Their Lives and Works; Queen Titania; The Story of Norway; Ilka on the House-top. The last-mentioned has been dramatized and successfully performed in New York. Among his later works are Commentary on the Writings of Henrik Ibsen and Evolution of the Heroine. He died in New York City, on the 4th of October 1895. See also “A Norwegian Dance.”
