Nils Collett Vogt (24 September 1864 – 23 December 1937) was a

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poet. He was born in Christiania (now Oslo) as the son of tramway director

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(1830–1892) and writer Johanne Collett (1833–1906). He was great-nephew of

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and second cousin of Johan Vogt (1858–1932),

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(1859–1927),

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(1863–1947) and

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(1870–1943). His family first lived at

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, before they in 1877 moved into a newly constructed

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in Josefines gate,

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. According to his biographer in ''

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'',

Hans H. Skei Hans Hanssen Skei (born 20 August 1945) is a Norway, Norwegian editor and writer. He was born in Dønna, and graduated as dr.philos., Ph.D. with the treatise ''"The novelist as short story writer : a study of William Faulkner's short stories with ...

, he grew up in a conservative upper-class environment, but opposed "authorities and conservative attitudes". At a young age he joined the

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and penned radical articles to newspapers at the age of seventeen. After a failed matric course, his family sent him to

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where he took

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in 1884. For a short period of time, Vogt taught at a manor house in

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, before he started studying law. He discarded the law studies in favor of poetry writing for the periodical ''

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''. Vogt thereupon travelled to

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, where he met

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and made his debut with the poetry collection ''Digte'' (lit. "Poems"). He published the novel ''Familiens sorg'' in 1889, which was based on his own childhood and conflicts with his father. He had planned to write a resume of the novel, but he soon realised that the intellectual conditions in the 1890s were better for poetry than for fiction. Following his father's 1892 death, Vogt travelled to the Italian island

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. In 1894, he published the poetry collection ''Fra Vaar til Høst'' ("From Spring to Autumn"), which according to Skei represented his "final breakthrough". In the same year, he married Siri Maria Thyselius (1854–1936), with whom he lived at her homeplace. In the following decades, Vogt wrote many poems and plays, and also a few novels. His autobiography ''Fra gutt til mann'' ("From Boy to Man") was published in 1932, and is amongst his best known works. His wife died in 1936, and he moved to

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, where he died on 23 December 1937.

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Digitized books by Vogt
in the

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