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    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...
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    curbing the personal power of the monarch. The address was held by Henrik Wergeland, thoroughly witnessed and accounted for by an informant dispatched...
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  • sister of Henrik Harald Wergeland, Norwegian physicist Harald Nicolai Storm Wergeland, Norwegian military officer, and politician Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian...
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    writer. The son Henrik Wergeland is often characterized as Norway's national poet, and a symbol of the country's independence. Wergeland was also father...
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  • Henrik Stenson (born 1976), Swedish golfer Henrik Sundström (born 1964), Swedish tennis player Henrik Wergeland (1808–1845), Norwegian writer, poet, playwright...
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    Norwegian author Henrik Wergeland and the Norwegian folk tales as collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe. In Ibsen's youth, Wergeland was the most...
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    Norwegian feminist. She was also the younger sister of Norwegian poet Henrik Wergeland, and is recognized as being one of the first contributors to realism...
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    written by the Norwegian poet Henrik Wergeland in 1829. The scale of the poem invited criticism, especially by Wergeland's counterpart, Johan Sebastian...
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    and at the same time warned against the consequences of lifting it. Henrik Wergeland was also condescending in his mention of two arrested Jews in 1844...
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  • (1813–1895), author, feminist activist, sister of Henrik Wergeland (author and poet), and daughter of Nicolai Wergeland (priest and co-founder of the Norwegian...
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    applied for a letter of free passage. After tireless efforts by the poet Henrik Wergeland, politician Peder Jensen Fauchald, school principal Hans Holmboe and...
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  • royal and national anthem and set to the tune of "God Save the King"; Henrik Wergeland wrote a translation of "God Save the King" in 1841, dedicated to King...
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    Consumer Julia Street. The street is named in honor of Norwegian poet Henrik Wergeland. In 1808 he had his early childhood in the town until he at nine moved...
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    The movement covered all branches of culture, including literature (Henrik Wergeland, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Jørgen Moe), painting...
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    by architect Hans Linstow. It was originally the home of the poet Henrik Wergeland who lived there from 1841 to 1845. Since the 1920s, it has been awarded...
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  • organized in 1879. Less than one month later, the name Wergeland was adopted, after Henrik Wergeland, a Norwegian writer, playwright, historian and linguist...
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    Gude should attend the Academy of Art in Düsseldorf. Til Henrik Wergeland! (1830) Henrik Wergelands Digtekunst og Polemik ved Aktstykker oplyste, (1832) Norges...
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  • Loud House. Stella, the ideal woman in the work of Norwegian poet Henrik Wergeland Stella is the name of the Glinda analogue in The Wizard of the Emerald...
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    first allowed into the realm in 1851 after the famous Norwegian poet Henrik Wergeland had campaigned for it. Monastic orders were permitted in 1897, but...
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  • the great four emerged: Henrik Ibsen, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Alexander Kielland, and Jonas Lie. The dramatist Henrik Wergeland was the most-influential...
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    docked, several men and boys began to cheer it; 20-year-old student Henrik Wergeland shouted "Long live the Constitution!" This instigated a larger response...
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    Wergeland is a crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1976, after the Norwegian poet Henrik Arnold Wergeland...
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  • Den sildige rose 4 Songs for Male Chorus for male chorus 1. words by Henrik Wergeland 2. words by Christian Richardt 3. words by Christian Richardt 4. words...
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    achieved a great success. From his youth and forwards, Bjørnson admired Henrik Wergeland, and became a vivid spokesman for the Norwegian left-wing movement...
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  • (English: We are a nation, we as well) is a poem written by Norwegian poet Henrik Wergeland. Adapted as the lyrics of the Patriotic song "Smaagutternes Nationalsang...
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    educator. Her literary studies have included significant works on Henrik Wergeland (earning her a PhD) and on Norwegian folk poetry. As a singer, she...
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  • (English: The Parrot) is a farce from 1835, written by Norwegian writer Henrik Wergeland under the pseudonym "Siful Sifadda". The farce was published by Johan...
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    Tales of my Messmates, W. Strange (1832) pp. 222–3. Wergeland, Henrik Arnold, Henrik Wergelands Samlede Skrifter, ed. by Hartvig Lassen, Chr. Tonsberg...
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    Nicolai Wergeland and cousin of the poet Henrik Wergeland, feminist writer Camilla Collett and military officer Oscar Wergeland, Harald Wergeland grew up...
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    Nineveh by Edwin Atherstone (1828–1868) Creation, Man and the Messiah by Henrik Wergeland (1829) The Bronze Horseman by Alexander Pushkin (1833) Prometheus Bound...
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