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A Norwegian novelist; born in Jaederen, Jan. 25, 1851. He was the son of humble parents, and prepared himself with difficulty for a school-teacher's career. He took up literature as a means of expressing his theories, and produced the novels "Pleasant Students" and "Mannfolk", both of a rebellious and often displeasing realism, which brought him fame,- but also trouble, for the truthful portraiture in one of them cost him his post in the government service.