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

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, 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 {{norway-writer-stub