Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson papers, 1879-1940

Title

Identifier

P0040

Date

1879-1940

Creator

Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne, 1832-1910

Description

Correspondence, clippings, essays, papers, personal reminiscences, 1932 centenary observance, and commentary on his 1881 lecture tour in the Midwest. One letter is by Bjørnson to Thoralv Klaveness concerning the latter's book, "Det Norske Amerika" (1904).

Contents

Letters, obit of Karoline Bjørnson.
Clippings. Program for "The Editor" Dec. 15, 1932 performance at the Metropolitan Opera House, Minneapolis includes commentary by Donald O'Connell. Newspaper clipping with photograph of Prof. Gisle Bothne, Prof. Martin B. Ruud, Dr. Lotus D. Coffman, Pres. of the University of Minnesota, Governor Floyd B. Olson, and B. O. Eggen, president of the Norwegian National League of Minneapolis. Program for the 100th anniversary of Bjornson's birth, Dec. 8,1932. Poem, "Hilsen" written by Knut Hamsum for the seventieth anniversary of the birth of Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, translated by Martin R. Ruud and Joseph Warren Beach on the hundredth anniversary of his birth.
Copy of "Vis-Knut." Included are photocopies of articles regarding Bjørnson's visit to Chicago (1881).
Added 6/28/12, photo of Edvard Hoem (Norwegian author, poet, and playwright, who has written biographies of Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson) during a visit to St. Olaf College, 2001.
Added April 7, 2014: TRANSLATION, “AMERIKABREV” FEDRAHEIMEN, FEBRUARY 1881 (provided by John Norton). Norton wrote, "probably [written by] Arne Garborg´s younger brother Samuel...dealing with Bjornstjerne Bjørnson´s unsuccessful attempt to reach Decorah as part of the regional lecture tour arranged by Rasmus B. Andersen, but snowed out by what must have been a miserable winter storm. He got snowed-out, while his audience got snowed-in at Decorah!" May 4, 1881(?) Skandinaven newspaper image regarding Bjørnson's visit to Chicago (in Norwegian). Photocopy of Verdens Gang, Chicago, 14 April, 1881 Bjørnson's last lecture (In Norwegian).
Several English translations of Bjørnson's and others including "Arne's Song", "The Bridge Builder", "A Snail and I", "En Ungbirk Stander ved Fjorden", and "Over the Towering Mountains", newspaper clippings.
Clipping from 25 May 1939 issue of Gudbrandsdølen, "De Fem Store" by O. Thommessen, in Norwegian. Clipping from Nordisk Tidende 1 Aug. 1934 Stort og smaatt i America (Letter from Bjørnson's America Tour in 1880, in Norwegian).
Booklet "Vis-Knut by Bjornstjerne Bjroson, published 1882. Bjornstjerne Bjornson Jubieums-nummer published by Norden Tidsskrit for Det Norsk Amerika. May 1932. "Poet-Patriot an impetuous youth", newspaper clipping about Jacob Seeman, longtime friend of Bjornstjerne Bjornson. Bjornson was engaged to Seeman's sister and they remained friends. Published in the Madison Journal, October 21, 1905. Clipping "Björnon, Kristofer Janson og Thrond i Chicago" by M. Salmonsen, in Danish published 28 June 1919, unknown newspaper. Clipping "Bjørnson i Amerika" 18 Aug 1929 by Prof. Edvard Lehmann. Clipping Daughters av Norge form Bjornson Club in La Crosse, Published December 6, 1931, Decorah Posten, in Norwegian. Clipping Minneapolis Tidende July 28, 1932 Knud Wesalds Tale about Bjørnsterne Bjornson. Many clippings from various Norwegian language newspapers regard the centenary of Bjornson's birth. Decorah Posten clipping, "Bjornson in Racine" 13 February 1934 in Norwegian. Sonner of Norge newsletter, "Det Norge Bjørnson gav oss" in Norwegian with English translation. Clipping from Decorah Posten 22 Oct. 1940,
List of Poems of Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1850-1869 by Clara Jacobson.
Clipping from Nordisk Tidende, "Civilized or Merely Clever" by H. Sundby-Hansen about Erling Bjornson, Bjornstjeren's brother, in multiple parts, in English, September 9, 1934. Program, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's Minde, Minneapolis Auditorium, June 12, 1910. Published to raise money for Norway in advance of the 100 year anniversary in 1914.
Photocopy, J. B. Wist, "Da Bjornson kom til La Crosse, Sumra 1919 in Norwegian Booklet, En Tale af Bjornsterne Bjornson om Maalsagen, 1900, Landsbladets, in Norwegian. Newspaper special section, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's liv i billeder, Aftenposten 3 December 1932.
Clipping, "A Day With Bjornstjerne Bjornson, the "Grand Old Man" of Norway" by W.B. Chamberlain, Managing Editor of The Journal, 1905. In English. Clipping of republished article in 1932. Clipping, Bjørnsons nye bog, Nationaltrykkeriet-Kristiania, undated, in Norwegian. Clipping, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson by Carl Nærup unknown date, in Norwegian. Booklet, Til dem, som Forkynner eller lærer det norske mål af Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Kristiania 1887. Clipping, "Festen for Bjørnson" 6 July 1886 Norden. Clipping, "Det nye System" 24 December 1879, Norden.
Photograph of Bjørnstjeren Bjørnson with signature, undated.
Microfilm received from Einar haugen:
- (1.) 35 articles from Norwegian newspapers, 1880-1881, about Bjørnson Archive, Univ. of Oslo; filmed in Haugen, 1960.
- (2.) Letters from Haaken Løken (1859-1923) to Bjørnson, 1899-1908; and some vocabulary slips, "bokmaal."
- (Another film, letters of Rasmus B. Anderson to Bjørnson, 1872-1902, is in the R.B. Anderson Papers, P717.)