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See also:WERGELAND, HENRIK See also:ARNOLD (18o8—1845) , See also:Norwegian poet and See also:prose writer, was See also:born at See also:Christiansand on the 17th of See also:June 18o8. He was the eldest son of See also:Professor Nikolai Wergeland (1780-1848), who had been a member of the constitutional See also:assembly which proclaimed the See also:independence of See also:Norway in 1814 at Eidsvold. Nikolai was himself pastor of Eidsvold, and the poet was thus brought up in the very See also:holy of holies of Norwegian patriotism. He entered the university of See also:Christiania in 1825 to study for the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, and was soon the See also:leader of a See also:band of enthusiastic See also:young men who desired to revive in Norway the spirit and independence of the old vikings. His earliest efforts in literature were See also:wild and formless. He was full of See also:imagination, but without See also:taste or knowledge. He published poetical farces under the See also:pseudonym of " Siful Sifadda "; these were followed in 1828 by an unsuccessful tragedy; and in 1829 by a See also:volume of lyrical and patriotic poems, Digte, forste See also:Ring, which attracted the liveliest See also:attention to his name. At the See also:age of twenty-one he became a See also:power in literature, and his enthusiastic See also:preaching of the doctrines of the revolution of See also:July made him a force in politics also. Meanwhile he was tireless in his efforts to advance the See also:national cause. He established popular See also:libraries, and tried to alleviate the widespread poverty of the Norwegian peasantry. He preached the See also:simple See also:life, denounced See also:foreign luxuries, and set an example by wearing Norwegian homespun. But his numerous and varied writings were coldly received by the critics, and a See also:monster epic, Skabelsen, Mennesket og Messias (Creation, See also:Man and See also:Messiah), 183o, showed no improvement in See also:style. It was remodelled in 1845 as Mennesket. From 1831 to 1835 Wergeland was submitted to severe satirical attacks from J. S. le See also:Welhaven and others, and his style improved in every respect. His nationalist See also:political propaganda lacked knowledge and See also:system. His partisans were alienated by his inconsistent admiration for See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King Carl Johan, by his unpopular advocacy of the Jewish cause, and by the extravagance of his methods generally. His popularity waned as his See also:poetry improved, and in 184o he found himself a really See also:great lyric poet, but an See also:- EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)
exile from political See also:influence. In that See also:year he became keeper of the royal archives. He died on the 12th of July 1845. In 1908 a statue was erected to his memory by his compatriots at See also:Fargo, See also:North Dakota. His See also:Jan See also:van Huysums Blomsterstykke (184o), Svalen (1841), Joden (1842), Jodinden (1844) and Den Engelske Lods (1844), See also:form a See also:series of narrative poems in See also:short lyrical metres which remain the most interesting and important of their See also:kind in Norwegian literature. He was less successful in other branches of letters; in the See also:drama neither his Campbellerne (1837), Venetianerne (1843), nor Sokadetterne (1848), achieved any lasting success; while his elaborate contribution to political See also:history, Norges Konstitutions Historie (1841—1843), is forgotten. The poems of his later years include many lyrics of great beauty, which are among the permanent treasures of Norwegian poetry.
Wergeland's Samlede Skrifter (9 vols., Christiania, 1852–1857) were edited by H. See also:Lassen, the author of Henrik Wergeland og hans Samtid (1866), and the editor of his Breve (1867). See also H. Schwanenflugel, Henrik Wergeland (See also:Copenhagen, 1877); and J. G. Kraft, Norsk Forfatter-Lexikon (Christiania, 1857), for a detailed bibliography.
End of Article: WERGELAND, HENRIK ARNOLD (18o8—1845)
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