![]() ![]() In 1834 Asbjørnsen discovered that Moe had started independently on a search for the relics of national folklore the friends eagerly compared their results, and determined to work in concert on their great project. ![]() Jørgen Moe, who was born in Ringerike, met Asbjørnsen first when he was fourteen years old, while they were both attending high school at Norderhov rectory. He worked with two of the most famous marine biologists of their time: Michael Sars (1805 – 1869) and his son Georg Ossian Sars (1837 – 1927). This was to be his life’s passion, and he later walked the length and breadth of Norway, adding to his stories.īy profession, Asbjørnsen became a zoologist, and with the aid of the University of Oslo, made a series of investigative voyages along the coasts of Norway, particularly in the Hardangerfjord (the fourth longest fjord in the world, and the second longest fjord in Norway). The young man enrolled at the University of Oslo in 1933, but as early as 1832 (his twentieth year), Asbjørnsen had begun to collect and write down fairy tales and legends. It is thought that the family line came to an end with Asbjørnsen’s death. He was descended from a family originating in Otta in Gudbrandsdal (a district in the Norwegian county of Oppland). Peter Christen Asbjørnsen was born on 15th January 1812, in Christiana (now Oslo, Norway). ![]() ![]()
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