Bjørnstjerne
Martinius
Bjørnson
Born in Bjørgan, Kvikne, Hedmark, Norge
Ancestors 
Brother of
Mathilde Catinka Bjørnson, Annine Lovise Ambrosia Bjørnson, Petter Elias Bjørnson, Caroline Emilie Bjørnson and Carl Fredrich Bjørnson
Husband of
Caroline Johanne Elisabeth (Reimers) Bjørnson
— married
11 Sep 1858 in Søgne
Descendants 
Father of
Bjørn Bjørnson, Einar Bjørnson, Erling Bjørnson, Bergliot (Bjørnson) Ibsen, Dagny (Bjørnson) Sautreau and Anders Underdal
Died
at age 77
in Paris, France
Profile last modified
| Created 9 Nov 2015
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Biography
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson is Notable.
Field: poetry, prose
Bjørnstjerne was born in Dec 1832 in Kvikne, Hedmark and christened on 24 Feb the following year.
He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1903, "as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished by both the freshness of its inspiration and the rare purity of its spirit". Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson died in Paris in 1910 and was buried in Vår Frelsers gravlund in Oslo (gravnr. 01.900.00.003).
Sources
- SAH, Kvikne prestekontor, Ministerialbok nr. 4, 1815-1840, pp. 120-121. Record 4. [https://media.digitalarkivet.no/view/9232/61.
- http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1903/bjornson-facts.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjørnstjerne_Bjørnson Wikipedia: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
- https://www.begravdeioslo.no
- https://lokalhistoriewiki.no/wiki/Bjørnstjerne_Bjørnson
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