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Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen was a Norwegian writer and scholar. He and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe were collectors of Norwegian folklore. They were so closely united in their lives' work that their folk tale collections are commonly mentioned only as "Asbjørnsen and Moe".
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culture · 19th-century Norwegian writer · writer · marine biologist · children's writer · forester · collector of fairy tales · mythologist · also Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Asbjørnsen
Born 15 January 1812 · Died 6 January 1885 · Q355485
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1885· 1 entry
Died 1885-01-06.
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1879· 1 entry
Sold his large collection of zoological specimens to the Natural History Museum (Ireland) for £300
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1876· 1 entry
Retired from these duties with a pension
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1856· 1 entry
Asbjørnsen called attention to the deforestation of Norway, and he induced the government to act on this issue
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1845· 1 entry
Asbjørnsen also published, without help from Moe, a collection of Norwegian fairy tales (Huldre-Eventyr og Folkesagn)
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1839· 1 entry
Had devoted himself to the study of theology, and was making a living as a tutor in Christiania
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1834· 1 entry
Asbjørnsen discovered that Moe had started independently on a search for the relics of national folklore; the friends eagerly compared their results, and determined to work in concert in the future
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1833· 1 entry
But as early as 1832, in his twentieth year, he had begun to collect and write down fairy tales and legends
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1812· 1 entry
Born 1812-01-15.
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