Aasmund Olafson Vinje

Aasmund Olafson Vinje (born April 6, 1818, Vinje, Norway—died July 30, 1870, Gran) was a poet and journalist who wrote some of the finest lyric poems in Norwegian literature. The son of a poor tenant farmer, Vinje took a law degree but then struggled to support himself by teaching, writing, and working as a government clerk. In 1851 he began writing for an Oslo newspaper, and in 1858 he started a newspaper of his own,...