Hartvig Marcus Lassen (9 August 1824 – 9 August 1897) was a Norwegian editor, educator and literary historian.
Personal life
He was born in
Bergen
Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula o ...
, Norway as a son of police chief and burgomaster Albert Lassen (1783–1860) and his wife Abigael Vogt Monrad (1792–1861). He was a nephew of professor
Christian Lassen
Christian Lassen (22 October 1800 – 8 May 1876) was a Norwegian-born, German orientalist and Indologist. He was a professor of Old Indian language and literature at the University of Bonn.
Biography
He was born at Bergen, Norway where he att ...
(1800–1876). He attended
Bergen Cathedral School and graduated from the
University of Christiania
The University of Oslo ( no, Universitetet i Oslo; la, Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the highest ranked and oldest university in Norway. It is consistently ranked among the top universit ...
in 1843.
Career
From 1852, he was a teacher at
Hartvig Nissen School
The Hartvig Nissen School ( no, Hartvig Nissens skole), informally referred to as Nissen, is a gymnasium in Oslo, Norway. It is located in the neighborhood Uranienborg in the affluent West End borough of Frogner. It is Norway's oldest high schoo ...
in Christiania (now Oslo).
He edited the magazines ''Skilling-Magazin'' from 1857 to 1891, ''Folkevennen'' from 1868 to 1897 and ''Folkebladet'' from 1891 to 1896. He was also known for publishing the complete works of
Henrik Wergeland
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, historian, and linguist. He is often described as a leading pioneer in the develop ...
, in nine volumes between 1852 and 1857. In 1866 he issued the biography ''Henrik Wergeland og hans Samtid''.
This was the first Wergeland biography. Lassen portrayed Wergeland as a wordsmith first and foremost, not as a liberal political figure.
Lassen died during 1897 in Christiania and was buried at
Vår Frelsers gravlund
The Cemetery of Our Saviour ( no, Vår Frelsers gravlund) is a cemetery in Oslo, Norway, located north of Hammersborg in Gamle Aker district. It is located adjacent to the older Old Aker Cemetery and was created in 1808 as a result of the great ...
. In 1915, the Hartvig Lassens medalje was established at the University of Oslo for outstanding literary dissertations. The first medals will be awarded in 1919 and the last in 1933.
References
1824 births
1897 deaths
Writers from Bergen
People educated at the Bergen Cathedral School
University of Oslo alumni
Norwegian magazine editors
Norwegian literary historians
Norwegian biographers
Male biographers
19th-century journalists
Male journalists
19th-century Norwegian writers
19th-century Norwegian male writers
Burials at the Cemetery of Our Saviour
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