Kristofer Janson

Kristofer Nagel Janson ( born May 5, 1841 in Bergen, Norway, † November 17, 1917 in Copenhagen, Denmark) was a Norwegian writer.

Kristofer Janson joined in Christiania, where he studied theology until 1865, the national language movement, the so-called Maalsträvere on, then ran several years a so-called. Folk high school, ie a school for adult swains and peasant girl.

He also appeared as a narrator with stories of peasant life, such as

• Fraa Bygdom (1865 )
• Han og ho
• Marit Skjølte (1868 )
• Torgrim (1872 )
• The Bergtekne (1876 ), among others, also had a band lyric poems: Norske DICT (1867 ) and a historical tragedy: Jon Arason appear (1867 ).

In 1876, he was suspended by the Norwegian Storthing one years pay of 1600 crowns for his contributions to language and literature.

More poems by Janson (like the earlier ones in the Norwegian peasant language ) are:

• Sigmund Bresteson, epic poem (1872 )
• Fraa Dansketidi, historical novel from the 16th century (1875 )
• Austanfyre sol og Vestanfyre Maane, fairy tales gasket ( 1879) and
• En Kvindeskjabue (1879 ), a modern drama, written in Norwegian written language.

In 1882 he moved to America where he became a preacher of a Unitarian congregation. His latest and most mature work in several respects poet: Præriens Saga (1885), he has written there. In recent times he has been actuated by a series of pamphlets as a free-thinking theologian -driven.